Not wife, not girlfriend Lover The one he crawls to in the middle of the night The one you hide away The one you hold when you're to tired to deal with all the baggage at he And I am okay with this
Our stories intersect one day as I was walking in the fog In an outfit 'sluttier' than I had anticipated He's out there on the road Trying to escape his same old home And he sees me He recognizes me
The same can't be said for me I've always been bad with faces and places
But you see me And walk up to me As I'm walking to a cafe on the street
We'll return pleasantries And then ill recognize you You'll walk me to my car Even though I'm determined to walk alone (Always too determined to walk alone)
I lean in to hug You lean in for more And I go along because that's me nature And why the **** not
You'll call Even though I didn't give you my number We'll meet in hazy cafes Dreary bars All the the places your wife won't go All the the places that seem like my second home
On our fourth meeting you'll hold me too long Swear to yourself it's not anything more than longing You'll doubt our arrangement I'll be too strung out to see your internal battle And you will see me In that moment As the broken thing As the special project That only you can fix The mess The that only you Can hold together
I won't care about the ring line on your finger You won't care about the *** you see on my kitchen table. (Or the needles in my bathroom) You won't care that I open the door in tears I won't care that you can't stay the night (But we both really do Care About everything)
You'll break down and tell me you love me Even though you know it's the last thing I want to hear You tell me But I refuse to truly Hear it
It comes through the too short grapevine that she want kids And that's the notch that hits my trigger Because children are the one True innocence Left in the world And the second a minor enters our play Is the moment I make my final exit
You lose me Because I won't be found You'll knock on the doors of my dealers Call the family who turned their backs on me too long ago
I'll try to get it together (And mostly fail) I'll listen to too much Carole King (Don't worry- I won't realize the irony) The truth will come too clear in the eighth shot of Jameson (And the nth hit)
The truth I hid from Those frighteningly cliche three words
You go back to your perfect wife I go back to my means to an end
You find me again One night (I let you find me) And the accident that created brightens my world Wondrously
He becomes my life The candle in the fog My own perfection My reason to feel the dreaded L word I don't share him though
I'll give him everything But you (I'll thank you for the gift everyday) (I'll thank you for the love Every second)