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      (Keep me)   On your porch, or on your tongue   (Keep me)   Beating in your chest, or coming undone   (Keep me)   Folded neatly in the corner 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      (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 you heart, under lock and key   WIll you keep me, will you keep me      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 youmisconstrue   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