Let Me Go

One last time
 I tell myself every time
 But always return to the scene of the crime
 Just like a ghost to the place where they died
 Cause you make me yearn to be refused
 You intimate hope for a life you won't choose
 Keep me around just keep you amused
 Won't you please cut me loose?
 I'm bleeding out slowly
 But you keep me alive
 I'm pleading for mercy
 But you won't let me die
 If you're not in love with me
 Just tell me so
 And stop reeling me in
 And then letting me go
 It can't be the chase you love cause I've never run
 It can't be a game cause you've already won
 I feel like a dog at the races
 Who futilely chases what's endlessly just out of reach
 You make me yearn to be abused
 You suture me up just to open new wounds
 And how is it I'm neither numb nor immune?
 And why when you call can I never refuse?
 I'm bleeding out slowly
 But you keep me alive
 I'm pleading for mercy
 But you won't let me die
 If you're not in love with me
 Just tell me so
 And stop reeling me in, and then letting me go
 Why don't you love me the way that I do?
 Why don't you need me the way I need you?
 How many years have I wasted, hoping you'll change when
 You never will
 You never will
 You never will, forever you're just
 Reeling me in, reeling me in, and letting me go
 You steal the life from me
 Shake all that I believe
 But I can't leave you no,
 I'll always need you so
 I love you more than words
 It's more than you deserve
 You're stringing me along
 Like grabbing onto fog
 But all I catch is mist
 What little of you sticks
 Then you dry up and you're gone,
 And I'm again alone
 And on and on it goes
 Forever it unfolds
 We're fated I suppose
 To always play these roles
 Reeling me in, reeling me in, and letting me go