I love you too much
To lie to you
To make you feel better...

I know the truth hurts -
I know me unexpectedly
Reflecting images of you
Hurt too...

I love you too much
To pretend the face you see
Has been disfigured by time
As has your spirit -
You see what you want to...

I can't live in the world
Of what you remember
Cause in my world
I still remember what you said -
And believed in it...

Even when it wasn't true -
Playing the fool
Cause that's what lovers do
But I love you too much
To be one...

Too much to
Let you make me hate you
So you can feel alive
Thru the pain...

Too much to
Sugarcoat jagged little pills
Of doses of your own medicine...

Too much to
Be near and not
Want to help you heal
And nurse your wounds...

But injured things are vicious
And you knaw at my
Better angels
Summoning the spite
Of my ill tempered youth
With every scratch against
My good intentions...

And I love you too much
To let you be the death of me -
Because that's a truth

That would kill you