1/17/2008

all and all and all I have
give and give but can’t take back
I’ve been spending too much to count
in loose change or seconds hands
ticks and tocks
can’t escape these clocks
and feeling like I’ve wasted another day
so I’ll write this night out of my mind
I’ll write ‘til I’m out of my mind
and can find some sense in this mess
because it’s getting harder to understand
the way I am and where I stand
when I’m standing in your reach
and you may be looking at me
but you’re talking to someone else
and my mind is off and gone
oh come on
I can’t stay where you are
when your thoughts are always so far
away and away
my thoughts drift further each day
from lack of company
so don’t expect me to lay in bed
and want something more than sleep
because the only way away from this mind
is to give into its dreams
oh let me sleep.
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I don’t see you in my dreams
smiling at me
I don’t see you the way I want to
I see you waiting for the break
awkward in the background
searching for words to say
desperate to explain
how my sweet dreams become nightmares
and I wake up scared as hell
whilst you’re sleeping sound and well
by my side
I don’t see you in my dreams
smiling at me
wrapped up in my arms
or anywhere that you belong
and when I see you
I don’t need to
dream of you that way
so distant and hesitant
oh you’re like that every day