love to love you

i would love to love you but i know that it would be wrong

you got someone waiting for you who's never done me no harm

i would love to touch you like a building on fire in my chest

so the only voice i turn to is the one i use to confess

it's already done it's already done

i would hold my breath i would take those steps out of your living room and into the blue

so i hold my head and i take what's left

you know i lost everything the day i met you

i would love to love you like the movie that plays in my mind

like the boy in sons & lovers when he first sees the girl in white

it's already done the film's in the can

i would hold my breath i would take those steps out of your living room and into the street

so i hold my head and i take what's left

you know i lost everything - the place in the world where we are free in a different year in a different town that isn't here that isn't now

i can see your face i can read your mind in another place where you are mine

in another time.