Familiar

I see you in my dreams

in melancholic scenes

Like missing my train in the rain

Although our time for love has passed

I see you in every glass, every window, in every pane.

I see you and you look the same

There's this boy who writes his songs

As if he won't be here for long

And he tosses them out in the street

When something doesn't work

He tries another word

My God, that could never be me

Why God, could that never be me

So sing me a song that's familiar

And know that it won't be the same

Since the day that you pushed me away

But I love you and that will never change

I am haunted by the way

you said to me that day

I love you, but I have to go

And I became a leaf looming in the breeze

If I land, I never will know

It's strange how a heart becomes home

And I left that day

thinking I would never change

I would love you, my darling, till I'm dead

But when something doesn't work

You write another verse

And the dissonance falls like a thread

My needle, my haystack, my end

So sing me a song that's familiar

And know that it won't be the same

Since the day that you pushed me away

But I love you and that will never change