Another Life

Put inside the picture frame Some tables and a coffee pot A uniform, a girl of twenty-three Sitting at a table Put a man of thirty-seven As exotic as that girl would ever see Have her standing over him And laughing as he's asking her a question No one thought to ask before Color him with mistery And color her with danger And expose them just enough to wish for more And there was something there between us Something I could never name Something stronger Something stranger More than quick sand More than flame Another life Further down the gallery A picture of a couple On a honeymoon in Merikesh somewhere See him with his camera And his eye and see her grasping At his hand Afraid he doesn't know he's there And there was something deep inside him Something I could never reach Like he saw it getting closer In a window On a beach Another life Another life But I'd believed I've grown to be The things he needed most to see And if our nights just stay this hot I'd break him down He'd open up Well obviously not Back there in the shadow find a picture of a woman Wearing four years of confusion like a scarf Walking through the door and leaving nothing but a note That says, "I'm sorry Robert" Taped to her guitar And there's so much I still wonder Did he need me? Did he know? Love is open Love is easy That was someone long ago Another life Another life