I held the camera tightly
In my hands and watched the girls
In their halter tops and Bubblegum pants
Scream at me with smiles
And kisses
I wanted to be
With them
I used to be
And now I had everything I wanted
Everything those girls wanted

I filmed them all, telling them to say,
"Hanson rules!" into the lens
and told them they might get on the tour video or in
Moe or in magazines and they
Cried with joy
Cried with this passion for
Three boys they didn't know,
The blond hair, the raspy voice
The blue eyes.

Those blue eyes.
Blue like gemstones
And the waters of Bali.
Those blue eyes that stared into
Me
Captured me like bandits
And hid me away inside of him
Those blue eyes

They didn't look away when he spoke,
They didn't glance beyond when he listened.
Sometimes it was hard to hold eye contact with him
Sometimes he seemed too intensely interested
In what I had to say
Then I looked away
At my hands, my feet, a person behind him
And felt guilty in retrospect, for not
holding on
but that was he, him, Taylor
Taylor had the strength to hold on
I didn't.
I was learning from him
So much is learned from heartache

I went back inside after enough
Footage was filmed.
I followed the damp, windowless halls
Behind the stage
Concrete was claustrophobic
I was greeted by the
Meet and Greet
Isaac and Zac posed
Smiled, put their arms around fans
For pictures. I looked for Taylor
Who was in a corner with a cup of coffee from Starbucks
It was my coffee, I had given it to him before I had been
Sent outside to tape all the girls who were so beautiful
I felt ugly.
There he was, in the corner

Talking with some girl
She was impossibly radiant
Black curls
Red lips, redder than red
Eyes like the sky
Skin like coffee with too much cream, like the coffee he drank
Belly tight and bare.
It seemed they had isolated themselves from everything
From camera flashes and tears
And they spoke in a foreign language
A tongue I would never understand
I watched them for a while
Then became afraid
Weak
And I couldn't hold on anymore

So I filmed more fanatics
And became one of them
Once again.
why couldn't you hold on to me
i was right here, laying in our bed
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