Prize Fighter - Great Deceivers

I waited on the steps where you slept

For hours that faded

Into years, we gathered and left

The bitter contest unabated

The prize fight we always hated

In the end, couldn’t delay it

It’s proof that you met your match and walked home

With nothing new to show for it

I needed to know that you remembered

I threw the fight so you could win

Endless and to the death but now it’s

Your corner that I’m standing in

So were you provoked?

Or was it foretold that we could have never pulled through

Without bending the rules?

And the burdens on me are now branded on you

Because the knot that once tied us comes loose as you

Push comes to shove

I’m taken to the ropes

With nothing to grab hold of

I held what I thought was owed

So tightly that it broke in two and won’t come together

The tighter the bind, the more simple to sever

On the outs is us at our brightest and our best

The weakness in your spine, the way your will just bends

If I could go back again, I’d cut you much deeper

Aim for the throat and the wound that much cleaner

So were you provoked?

Or was it foretold that we could have never pulled through

Without bending the rules?

And the burdens on me are now branded on you

Because the knot that once tied us lets loose as you