How Close Can You Get?

How close can you get?
To the fire
To the flame
Gaming out
Going tame
Too tame to be interesting
Interesting how you'd bow down
To money
Funny
Weren't you once risky?
Frisky enough to play close
And get closer
Close the deal on the line
And feel fine about it?

Don't you want to come
Come close again
To the heat of the kill
Thrill yourself knowing
It's snowing in settler's land
While you're on the beach sunning
Gunning for a cash prize
A surprise in a nice suit
Making 'em root for the underdog
Never realizing

That you're the fat cat
Rat out a friend in a second
If you had to
Go up to bat and bunt
If you had to
Get a new tat that says 'FaMoUs'
Don't blame us when you've got no skin left
The theft of your ambition
Turned out to just be a submission
Your derision done to shun the fact
That you're the one who stole your act

How close can you be to another man's lucky
To another man's fortune
To another man's chance
And not take it to dance
Shoot it a glance that says--

'I can do better by you'

You don't know how to glue yourself
To superglue yourself
To anything that won't stay new
So what do you do
You go to that flame
And drown yourself in the heat
Beating yourself up
When it flames out
And you have to find a new
Warmth to cling to
Bringing you to the edge of the darkness
Looking for a light
Bright enough
That it'll reach through
To the piece of you
That flickers
Tricking your eyes into thinking
You're fine

A glowing oasis
You chase after gladly
Madly opening your hands
The laughter all canned
Wondering why it's so hard
It's so hard
And why?

When a match
Is all you demand