You Will Never Know

You’re the question I cannot answer
The conundrum I cannot solve
It’s the confounding impossibility of it all
Too much to take, so I break and I fall
Plummeting and free-falling, I’m caught
In a tail spin like a spiraling aeroplane
I think I’ve got it figured out though
It’s because you will never know, you will never know

Wandering within a melancholy maze
The exit twists and ravels into a thousand ifs
There’s no escape, no turning
Just dead ends of desperate yearning
And the only thing that’s material
In this endless waking dreaming
You are all the light in the infinite space
You are the hope of this hopeless chase 

Possibility lingers like the dying puff of a cigarette
To want what one cannot have is the antic regret
Would our eyes lock across unbearable distance
And stock-still time, the one ephemeral instance
I’d lift your glasses and brush the hair from your face
Touch my lips to yours, keep you hidden in my embrace
Yet there’s none to make of this, but to let it go
It’s because you will never know, you will never know