I drive by your mother’s house Though she’s asleep, and you are out Two thousand, eight hundred and ninety eight miles away To be precise
Just to smell that air again To feel nostalgia mixed with pain For the days when you were here And I would come when you’d call
In a parallel world I am a much more lovable girl You’re reading me new pages from your great novel You’re holding my hand as if you need it But here, I only ever fell in love So I could play the game of Long-dead poets called genius As only men and suicides can be called
So that when our bodies are Dust specks in the beams of unnamed stars The words I’ve assembled for you Will still exist
I write songs for you but you don’t listen Worse than judgment, silence means indifference But someone will hear them So they will live forever Though you and I will never be young again
I keep driving I keep writing I am circling I may never land