:: Waiting for you ::

I've been pacing for hours
Wearing out the carpet in the halls
Listening to every car on the street
Talking dirty to the walls
Cleaned every dish in the sink
Stared out the windows at the lane
Drowned my sorrows in my records
Until that neighbor complained

Re-arranged all our books
And changed my shirt three times
Vacuumed the whole apartment
And practiced my new rhymes
Listening for your footsteps
So much for the weekend
I knew you weren't coming home tonight
But I tried to pretend

Chorus

Waiting for you…

Verse 2

Your Mother called
Asked how you were
She still thinks of you as her little girl
Untouched
Pure
I gave each of your stuffed animals a new name
Lit some incense for my senses
And played a video game

Smoked a bowl for dinner
And thought about our last fight
Tried imagine us making love
But I just couldn't get it right
I tried to figure out when we started to fall apart
When we stopped being real and began playing a part

I stayed up 'till 4
Almost 5
I haven't felt so paranoid
The whole time I've been alive
I counted the hours on the clock
It felt like days since you left
More like I was drowning
And you were my last breath

Chorus

Verse 3

You took a shower first
I pretended not to hear
About 8am you whispered something in my ear
I wiped the tears from my cheeks as you held me in your arms
All I could picture was you winning something else with your charms

I remembered the day I met you
I smiled through the tears
The connection still makes sense
Even though it's disappeared

You're a stranger now
And I miss the person that you used to be
I'm afraid of being alone
Afraid to let you be free

Inspiration wasn't coming
So I turned to look you in the eyes
Your eyes were lies
And even your lies had alibis

You whispered, "I still love you."
As we laid there in the dark
Then you said, "It's over."
And my whole world fell apart.

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