not waving. drowning.

I’m over those letters
That you mailed unaddressed
Sending out something
Anything, to speed the happiness
It’s winter again
The cold vines creeping in
And you’re somewhere South
Somewhere where you’ve figured it out
How to calm that weather down

And I swear I’ll leave a light on
If you wanna come back home
I know I took for granted
And what you’ve given is now gone
But I will keep on waiting
Even though I feel like sinking
And I’ll try the best that I can
To call you home again

Black night madness no light
To hold the tears left falling
And no man to hear your voice
If your voice don’t feel like calling
Cause some days I let my hair down
And I swear I scream into the sun
Still when I look to see who’s heard me
Turns out I’m the only one

The green’s a reminder
Of some better days back when
We played in the forest
And followed paths down and back again
Raindrops don’t mask tears
Til the raindrops start to fall
Cause in my world the rain’s just
The saddest thing of all.

I will float on down the river
I will lay beneath the water
And feel new understanding
As it washes me past logs there
Ophelia’s curse wasn’t choosing
The kind of man she loved
But drowning in the sorrows
Of every problem that was too much.

And I swear I’ll leave a light on
If you wanna come back home
I know I took for granted
And what you’ve given is now gone
But I will keep on waiting
Even though I feel like sinking
And I’ll try the best that I can
To call you home again

Some days you’ll see her waiting
With a notebook
On a bench down by the park
Looking for a boy she lost
When her whole life all fell apart
Her pen whispers that she loves him
She pretends that he would care
Thinking of willow trees and
Writing modern tragedies
Wondering if he’s still out there