Now that we are parted
and we've ended what we started,
we can live again
When your own depression lifts,
just imagine all the gifts
that we can give again
The sort of presents
you can only give a friend
And I don't feel so surrounded,
and I don't feel quite so grounded
as I did before.
Now there's nothing near that ties me,
and there's no one to advise me
or to quote me long.
And there's no one to act up
to or speak for.
I'm as unsettled as an ocean
if it's ideas of devotion
that are in your sight
If you're just tinkering in your laughter
that it's friendship that you're after,
I'll apologize
And I promise that I'll never criticize
While there's something to be glad for,
don't deny it
It's so easy to forgive,
why don't you try
Now that I have spoken,
I just hope your heart's not broken
or even hurt at all
But if we don't meet quite so often,
all the hunger pains will soften
till they're not there at all
That way we won't have quite
so far to fall
But I would still like to meet you
and with willing arms
I'll greet you, please
don't get me wrong.
It's not you that I'm against,
just the distance
and the fence that stands between us strong.
I guess it had me worried all along
Who knows about the future
or what tomorrow's dawn will capture
Who can say?
You and I might change
and no longer feel so strange
And in each other's way
Then we'll look back
and laugh loudly at today
Mention that you're turning
and I will come running like
a starving child
Speak foolishly if never
and I won't stay forever just a little while
To take what you can give
to make me smile
And if ever you're convicted
for emotion you've depicted
I would bribe the court
And if ever you are reeling in
some state of abstract feeling
I would steal your thought
Substitute it with a symbol of some soul
So if there's a smile
that suits your face
So why don't you wear it?
It won't harm you or disgrace you,
dear, I swear it