Neglected Space

Hello

I watch you come and go

I know you can hear my voice

Don't walk away

Come daydream with me

In closed loops and future-proof

Cardboard to caviar

Let's show them how good we are

If you look after me

I'll look after you

Sonar

Night vision

Or desperate lovers seeking privacy for their forbidden

I am their defenseless host

Through my open wounds, they let themselves in

Sheltered

(Sheltered)

They mock me

(They mock me)

If you stand up for me

I'll stand up for you

I'm weather-beaten in a losing battle

Punctured by nature, becoming organic

The air in here ages me ungracefully

But if you take care of me

I'll take care of you

Oh, my crumbling heart

If you'll be good to me

I'll be good to you

I'm a nest

I could be the best decision you ever made

A beacon, your peaceful corner

Find me, cherish me

Take me on or pull me down

You choose

Wait!

Oh, save me the ache of slow-decay

'Cause I will remember you

Will you remember me?

Bespoke to broken

This interwoven tapestry of tragedy

Crooked frames and cracked glazing

Slithers of wistful window gazes glint in borrowed light

Where doorways with no doors stage a ballet of leaves

Who pirouettes in the footsteps of once glorious days

But I'm peeling paint

I'm a sunken ceiling

I'm cracking up

And can seem threatening

I'm falling apart

I'm scary at night

I'm taped up, forbidden

Keep out, keep out

No, no, no-go zone

A has-been, a once was

The leftovers, an eyesore

Broken beer bottles, bleeding

Rusty nails, oxidizing

A few remaining tiles, unloved

No human touch, I'm walked past

I'm a waste of space, a nuisance

A hazard, abandoned

Unwanted, unwanted

Lights off, I'm losing grip

This is not what I stand for

This is not what I stand for, oh

This is not what I stand for

It was a perfectly good grand piano

Stop in the name of love

I've got just what you're looking for

I've got tree-lined interiors

Where we can dine with the biosphere

If you take care of me

I'll take care of you

If you'll be good to me

I'll

Be good

To you

I'm a story in mourning

And you're the author

So pour out your masterpiece

Entropy increasing

How long before I'm dust?

Can we discuss?