Fixation

I couldn't feel any more trapped than already I do Stuck inside, stuck inside this state of mind with you And yet you only smile like I'm your friend For now my happiness depends on how well I pretend Can we forget that we are bound by all these ) ropes and strings That tie us up like this And when we wake up we can go back to the world that ) only wants us To be friends And I hope that when I sing you're looking up at me So you can see my eyes are filled with hope for what could be I know I'm bound to this fixation for as long as I stay here ) Sometimes I wish I could just leave So you could come running after me And the perfect world we're after always seems to disappear ) I wish that we could find a way To make it out of here But that would mean that all we've done would simply go to waste I'm trying to convince myself we're better off this way Because you only smile like I'm your friend I wish someone would shake this out of me Or shake it into you (Without picking patter - just one strum) And yet you only smile like I'm your friend For now my happiness depends on how well I pretend