Breakthrough to the Temperate Zone

Words & Music by Brenda Layne

The minute you opened up the door I saw the deer in the headlights

Eyes like pools of pain as deep and dark as the black night

Baby when you freeze I want to wrap you up and heat you up ‘til you unthaw

Every time I’m close enough to melt the ice you push me back hard

Does my pretty fire scare ya?

Fear of fire can leave ya pretty cold

Can’t we find a milder temperature?

Breakthrough to the temperate zone

Breakthrough to the temperate zone

Breakthrough to the temperate zone

 

Hey you’ve got a jealous fantasy, it’s like a nasty old fishwife

The minute you love me tenderly it kicks my ass out of sight

Faithful to the dream until we only think of everything that we don’t have

Sweet reality will wither up and die and then we cry for what we once had

 

You and I are freaky weather

I think we make such a pretty storm

Can’t we ride it out together?

Breakthrough to the temperate zone

Breakthrough to the temperate zone

Breakthrough to the temperate zone

 

Since it’s not a dream

Love grows strong with time and hard sweat

By paradox our wilder hearts will be set free when we

 

Breakthrough to the temperate zone

Breakthrough to the temperate zone

Breakthrough to the temperate zone

Breakthrough to the temperate zone

 

 

© Brenda Layne Osuna