I Built You a Tower (a)

I built you a tower
A tower in my mind
A place that no one else
No one else would ever find
'Cause I needed you
I needed you contained
You'd run circles 'round
Circles 'round my brain

Until I couldn't think
Until I couldn't think of anyone else

At first the silence felt
Felt like an old friend
From whom I was estranged
But finally made amends
But into this void
Into this empty space
All my sleeping fears
They began to race

Until I couldn't think
Until I couldn't think of anything else
Until I couldn't think of anything else

I thought that I could keep
Could keep you locked away
That in this soundless spire
Was where you'd always stay
But there was no shape
That you could not escape
What a fool I was
To think that I was safe

And now I cannot think
And now I cannot think of anyone else

Oh how this penchant is a curse
All the way from the cradle to the hearse
And there are days when I wish you'd just become
An acquaintance or a time-to-time someone

I built you a tower
A tower in my mind
A place that no one else
No one else would ever find
'Cause I needed you
I needed you contained
You'd run circles 'round
Circles 'round my brain

And now I cannot think
And now I cannot think of anything else
And now I cannot think
And now I cannot think of anyone else