Catch and Release

You were never the prize You were just proof (the chase, the chase) There's a kid still inside, building scripts in the dark, the loud one, the unliked one, the wrong sort of smart. They taught the others Latin, they assumed he was slow, so he learned the one trick: how to make somebody go. Now the want comes so easy it doesn't mean a thing. I can land any line, I can pull on the string. You walked in convenient, you were bored, you were near, and you're leaving for Berlin in about six weeks from here. So I reel you in slow, just to prove that I can, I reel you in slow, watch you eat from my hand, I reel you in slow, get you sure that you're mine, then I cut you loose cold the first time you get close. Catch and release, catch and release, I hook you, I hold you, I will not be seen. (not be seen) Catch and release, catch and release, I stop at the door every time it gets deep. (every time) Sealed the house off for good after one too many thieves, so the wanting still works but the door never leaves. I can chase like a sport, I can win like a game, it's the keeping I fold on, it's the knowing, the name. You'd have done nothing wrong. You were warm, you were true. The fault was the floor I won't let anyone through. I knew when I started it was useless, I knew, and I went and I did the whole thing to you. It was never the cruelty, that's the lie I'd let stand. It's that I cannot be held, so I won't let me be planned. The wound isn't her, it was never her face, it's the second she asks me to stand in one place. (stand in one place) And the chase doesn't end. It can't. Watch. Catch and release, catch and release, I hook you, I hold you, I will not be seen. (not be seen) Catch and release, catch and release, I stop at the door every time it gets deep. (every time) You'll be gone in six weeks. I'll have proven my point. And I won't even feel the part where it hurt. (the chase, the chase) On to the next one I'll catch, then release.