What you need is almost
Never
What you
Want.
But what you
Want
Is almost always what you
Need.
You don't fit the mold.
And you never did.
I need you, but I don't
Want you.
I want you, but I don't
Need you.
I can't help but think
You need me.
And I can't help but
Wish
(Oh, how I wish)
That you would need me too.
The thing about wants,
The thing about needs,
Is they always, always,
Always
Correlate,
But they can never, never,
Ever
Exist one without the other.
There's a monstrous, gaping chasm
In between.
And as someone once told me,
There's armed sentries every
Twenty feet.
I can't remember not
Needing
You.
I can't remember not
Wanting
You.
I hope you still
Need
Me.
I hope you still
Want
Me.
I hope you see no chasm in between.
That's a lot to hope for;
But everybody else does.
And you've always been just
South
Of normal. So I hope everyone else is
Wrong.
I hope you can see a
Bridge,
And I hope you can see a way
Back to me.
'Cause there's a wall in the way
Of my bridge.
And it's not disappearing
Soon enough.
So I need you to find your way back to
Me.
'Cause I need you.
And I want you.
And I hope you need me too.
As I always thought, and I always
Said:
What you
Need
Is almost
Never what you want.
But what you
Want
Is almost always what you
Need.