Unrequited Love for No One in Particular

The Phantom of No One in Particular

I looked in the mirror
I thought
My thoughts became clearer
I fought
My fight became nearer
I caught
My catch became the scarer
I fell

Like a child chucked a stone
I fell
Like I'd always be alone
I dwell
Like a broken piece of bone
I sell
Like I had no place to go
But hell

But I had a place to go.
I went back to my home
And here I stay to roam...
Until I hear someone start to yell

I wish they'd quiet down
I want to sleep, safe and sound
I don't want to roam around
I fear the past will be found

But I hear somebody yell
I hear somebody ring a bell
I hear a chorus rise and swell
I wish it would just quiet down! But there is no one to tell...

And so I leave my home
My overprotective dome
Into the evening light
Swiftly fading into night

Hello?
I venture out
Hello!
An answer shouts
I want to sleep and I wish
I just wish
That you would quiet down!
I shout

Hello?
She says
Hello
Again
I wish you would quiet down!
I say
I stir my mind like I stir a pot
How to send her on her way?

A slap in the face
The unexpected
Put you in your place!
The disrespected

It's too bad I have a really soft spot for the beaten, the torn, the damned, that's
Because beaten and outcast aside from the world is the kind of person I am.

I leave the door open
I don't hear it close
I'm merely hoping
That nothing will fall on my toes

What do you want
And what do you need

You seem so gaunt
You need to be freed

I'm better off here
Than I'd be back out there
There's nothing wrong
If Im getting along

But you're not!
You're dead, dead inside!
You've got have painted on dots
Instead of your eyes

I know, I can't help it
I was born this way
I'm like bronze, but I'm melted
I'm melted away

If you melted again
I bet I could form you
I could help you regain
I could help to adorn you

No you cannot
It's clearly impossible
But you're all that I've got
So I'll pretend that you're plausible

Okay then let me in

I did

But why did you rescind?

I opened a moment and closed it the moment you gained momentum coming in.
I remembered you're nothing
This is why I lock my doors
I can hear the water rushing
I can hear it more and more...

But I'm your only chance at reconciliation
I'm your only chance to find a way out!

You're just a figment of my imagination
So I beg thee to just stay out!

And into the night invisible yells
I stay awake past the bells

And yet nothing has gotten better.