I’ll know true love when I see it, or
The Sole Mate I’m meant to have
Because they won’t tell me to *******
As soon as I open this mouth

I love that line in Vanilla Sky
‘I’ll see you in another life
when we are both cats’
Because it makes me feel as if,
in other futures,
It worked out well between us.

Have you thought as much as me,
About what could have been?
A landscape painted differently
To the one that we now see

A twitch in time is all it takes
To burn or build a life
To go gently into that good
And unforgiving night

To sit and smile without a care
And watch the dying of the light

To be content while sat in blood
And sweat and tears of seven years
And all the time we can pretend
That our feet aren’t getting wet

To feel a sadness that is yours, the fears as well, alone
And have to push it down;
A tragedy, and anguish, the pain; they never really leave
A knowledge that the life once wished for
Will never be the same

Give me back my ******* wish
A million things I could have done with it
But no, you’re right
I’d only waste it anyway;
Just this time not on you

I’ll know true love, when I see it
The soul mate that I’m meant to have
Because they won’t tell me to *******
As soon as I open my ******* mouth

That other scene, where David gets in Julie’s car
Imagine a whole seven years of that
“You just never seem to be there for your friends
Until they’ve given up on you”

A few well placed words wear away at all but the strongest man
As water ‘rodes both glacier, canyon, yet nothing,
NOTHING will ever be so cutting
As the last words you ever said, right before you left.


Instead of living life again,
I wouldn’t do it different
I’d try to find that twitch in time
I’d want to know where our divide began

I don’t know true love when I see it
The very idea, a soul mate, ha!
So I’ll tell myself to go
And maybe one day you will know
Maybe one day you will know
Maybe one day you will know

Maybe one day I will know
The depths of what it means to feel
As though the world has left me
All alone