This Can't Really Be What Life Is All About 
Learning How to Live Just to Live Without 
The Travesty's the Irony and the Irony Is You 
I've Traded in My Sanctity For a Cheaper 
Shade of Blue 

And As I Surrender to This Sunken Bed 
So Afflicted By the Tenant in My Head 
Even Now, I Wonder How You Lay Her Down 
To Sleep 
When Secretly, I Know It's My Soul That You 
Pray to Keep 
But Will You Really Keep Me 

First Chorus 
(Keep Me) 
On Your Porch, Or On Your Tongue 
(Keep Me) 
Beating in Your Chest, Or Coming Undone 
(Keep Me) 
Folded Neatly in the Cover of Your 
Favorite Book 
(Keep Me) 
At a Distance, in Your Maze 
Fumbling Through a Contemplative Haze 
Or Tucked Away Clandestinely, Where no One 
Else Will Look 
Where My Broken Sky Reaches to Your 
Velvet Sea 
Will You Keep Me, Will You Keep Me 

Drowning in the Bottom of This Empty Glass 
I Pray God Is Good and That This Too Shall 
Pass 
Then From the Abyss, Maybe I'll Find a 
Sweet Reprieve 
When the Echo of Your Kiss Reminds 
Me to Believe 
That You'll Always Keep Me 

Second Chorus 
(Keep Me) 
Under God Or On Your Wall 
(Keep Me) 
Behind Closed Doors, Forever After All 
(Keep Me) 
Or Headed South On the Blacktop Ribbon We 
Designed 
(Keep Me) 
On the Mantel of Integrity 
(Keep Me) 
Investing in Something I'll Never See 
(Keep Me) 
At Thirty-thousand Feet Or in the Windows of 
Your Mind 
In a Corner of Your Heart Under Lock and Key 
Will You Keep Me, Will You Keep Me 

Bridge 
Traipsing On Hallowed Ground 
Has Brought a Lifelong Sentence 
Now, Living Without Your Breath to Fill My 
Lungs 
Will Be My Penance 
And Even As I Feel 
I Hope You Feel It Just As Deeply 
And Even Though You've Let Me Go 
Say You'll Always Keep Me 
Say You'll Always Keep Me 

The Melody You Misconstrue 
On the Ocean Crashing Into You 
Or Waiting For the Man You'll Never Have the 
Heart to Be 
In the Fervent Strains of This Tragic Elegy 

Will You Keep Me 
Will You Keep Me 
Oh, Oh, Will You Keep Me 
Will You Keep Me 

(Fade)