Amnesia is My Jealousy

Someday you'll remember me

And it will have felt like mistaught chemistry

But when you struggle to not forget my name

Know that I'll be doing us the same

And the Once Upon a Time that could've been ours

With hookers, blackjack, and cigars

Disappeared instead into fractured memory

A faded name you just cant quite see

I wrote you love songs before we met

And you don't really even know me yet

But before too long you'll bail on me

A tryst turned joke I don't find funny

But for all the times you rose and fall

And I changed my sheets

You'll forget them all

A memory just left with me...

Amnesia is my jealousy

You always said I talk too much

I cared too much for it to be not enough

I'd never be your goth girlfriend

Wrong equipment

And too out of trend

But despite your flaws

I was willing to fall

I bared my own and offered a few more...

But you fall, I fall, we all fail

We fall apart, we want and hail

We want different things

The age and all... it didn't need to look like this.

And someday you might remember me

I could've been your next catastrophe

Or left me be to my bitter cynical destiny.

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