Jordan Rakei
Puppet
Underneath the tree
Yesterday
We spoke alone
For the first time in months

I could not remember why
We let that distance be
But then I recognised the way that
You were looking at me

The familiarity of it all sank in
And then I laughed as your lips gave
A devilish grin

Every thought in my mind bore
The same conclusions
And I know you were thinking the same things

After such a long time I expect confusion
But that’s never stopped us before
You’re not mine and I am not yours
But in fact, who we attract is irrelevant

But if we get too close
I begin to crave my dosage of you
Oh, you’re like a drug to me
We are victims of time
It shows, to leave us behind
And now our addiction is frozen in time
Is frozen in time

Sitting in my car
Heat is spilling in
My desire seems to mute all reason

It’s as if I’m a puppet
And you are my ventriloquist
And my autonomy dissolves
You put me at my weakest

The chemical bond between our fingers
When we touch is enough to drive me mad
With this poisonous lust

Oh, every thought in my mind bore
The same conclusions
And I know you were thinking the same things

After such a long time I expect confusion
But that’s never stopped us before
You’re not mine and I am not yours
But in fact, who we attract is irrelevant
But if we get too close
I begin to crave my dosage of you
Oo, you’re like a drug to me

We are victims of time
It shows, to leave us behind
And now our addiction is frozen in time