Collateral Damage

You tempt me with your wild ride
 Living in the darkness of the shadow by your side
 But for all I give and what I gave
 There's little to be seen of the thanks that you've made
 And I don't wanna be towed like baggage
 Or left behind like the wreckage
 Maybe I could be loved as a means to an end
 Like collateral damage
 Alone I wait through the weeks
 But no word is louder than your silence speaks
 If I close mine will yours repeat
 The action of a heart accepting defeat?
 I don't wanna be towed like baggage
 Or left behind like the wreckage
 Maybe I could be loved as a means to an end
 Like collateral damage
 And if I move on and shut you out
 Held up with pieces that will fail without doubt
 And you open up for me again
 And foolish I fall, learning nothing from where we've been
 I don't wanna be towed like baggage
 Or left behind like the wreckage
 Maybe I could be loved as a means to an end
 Like collateral damage
 I don't wanna be held so careful
 Or brushed aside too fragile
 I just need to be loved like something that mattered
 Like collateral damage