I liked that you understood
While the rain was hammering down
And we were on my bike
How everything always hurt
Even though you never said anything about it.

My shadows would sneak up on me
and in the morning you would find me
down some alleyway sleeping
rubbing my eyes awake when you came up
and smiling anyway.

I liked the way we used to
Spend the afternoons on the block
Eating ice-creams and kicking sidewalks
Before you would go on home and I would
Wander the streets until everything felt right.

Maybe the purple sky should have said
It's time for you to go
Nine times over I think to myself
Yeah, that's right
You really should go.

And so you did, you went
Masking all your fears and apprehension
And I was left there, on the dock that day
When you left on the ship to heaven
Never to return,

But then again
Where would you be now if you hadn't gone?
On my bike, in the rain again
Or down that alleyway sleeping with me
In the snow.