Last Line of Defence

You opened the door

Backlit by the burden

Weren't quick to draw

But you loaded your weapon

And said

Where's your last line of defence?

Invited me

In with a curl of your finger

When I wasn't looking

It wrapped round the trigger

You said

Is that your last line of defence?

The harder you deal the final blow

The sweeter the lethal dose

Well I've read the book

So I know how it goes

And what I thought was healing me

Was the poison in the remedy

Now you've opened the door

Turned sweet into sickly

The click of your fingers

Turns villains to victims

I know

That that's what you impose

Invited me

In as you tore at my collar

Words struck my skin

Like stones on a sinner

I said

Is that your last line of defence?

The harder you deal the final blow

The sweeter the lethal dose

Well I've read the book

So I know how it goes

And what I thought was healing me

Was the poison in the remedy