Do you remember the moment
you fell out of love?
One morning in Virginia, with the sky white above?
Something in the smell of the frost made you feel you'd gotten lost,
made you think, This is it, this is it.
You waited so long to stop feeling suffocated
but you left it unstated and
now you're looking back on the life that you thought you'd have.
And nothing has ever seemed so far away.
You knew what this was coming to.
Who could blame you for words
that you had to say.
Do you remember the moment you left me behind?
You told me not to follow you, you said it was time.
What could I do but watch you go, wishing I could say
I can't get rid of that moment, it stares out from the shelf
Me? I'm writing stupid love songs
and hating myself
and all these small insidious things
the shower curtain's stained rings
and the kettle, how it sings, how it sings.
I find myself still waiting, slowly asphyxiating.
Something in this house is fading.
Now I'm looking back on the life that I thought we'd have,
and nothing has ever seemed so far away.
I try so goddamn hard these days
not to blame you for words that you had to say.
Words you had to say.

INVIA LE CORREZIONI