we had our love for 12 hours and nobody knew
it was the way we just were, you and i
you sang to me your favourite lullaby
and i swear i hadn’t slept that good in years
years that i spent without you, surely
and you knew this as you held my hair in your hands

we had our love for 12 hours and you knew **** well
i loved you so, darling
for years but it felt like a lifetime of loving
and i would wear your sweater around the house
bigger the better because you knew how i loved to feel small
and in your arms i did

we had our love for 12 hours but it was enough
to let you know i was no longer wanted by you
only infatuated by the idea of us
spending our summer days together
like we previously did
dreaming about the house we’d buy
with the wrap around porch
along the shore of somewhere that wasn’t here
as long as it was anywhere
but here

we had our love for 12 hours and nobody knew
that the love i had for you in those 12 hours
was more than the love i had had for you
in the years we’ve spent together
under the covers with heavy breath
and delicate fingers
tracing along all the parts of my body
that you had come to learn so well
like second nature it was when we were reunited
after all that time
it was like your body had not forgotten mine

when our 12 hours were over
and for the first time since that wretched day in january
when i ripped your heart out
you got to rip mine
except this time
it happened over and over and over again
as i thought about our last moments together
and about our last and final kiss goodbye
it was as if i knew deep down in my heart
i would never get another one

it has been 12 hours since i last loved you
and i have finally decided that from now on
you are out of my life forever
but those 12 hours
those 12 hours will always be ours
and i have no shame in rejoicing in them.