But I just had to come back one last time.

Don’t put your lips up to my mouth and tell me you can’t stay. Don’t slip your hand under my shirt and tell me it’s okay. Don’t say it doesn’t matter, ‘cause it’s gonna matter to me. I can’t be alone with you. You’ve got me out on the edge every time you call and I know it would kill me if I fall. I can’t be alone with you. Don’t put your lips up to my mouth and tell me you can’t stay. Don’t slip your hand under my shirt and tell me it’s okay. Don’t say you love me ‘cause you know you’re gonna love me and leave. I can’t be alone with you. You’ve got me out on the edge every time you call And I know it would kill me if I fall I can’t be alone with you.

But you went away. How dare you. I miss you. They say I’ll be okay but I’m not ever going to get over you.

Now and then I think of when we were together. Like when you said you felt so happy you could die. Told myself that you were right for me, but felt so lonely in your company. But that was love and it’s an ache I still remember.

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness. Like resignation to the end, always the end. So when we found we could not make sense, you said that we would still be friends. But I’ll admit that I was glad it was over.

But you didn’t have to cut me off, make out like it never happened and that we were nothing. I don’t even need your love, but you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough. No, you didn’t have to stoop so low, have your friends collect your records and then change your number. Guess that I don’t need that though. Now you’re just somebody that I used to know.

Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over, but had me believing that it was always something that I’d done. But I don’t want to live that way, reading into every word you say. You said that you could let it go, then I wouldn’t catch you holding on to someone that you used to know.

But you didn’t have to cut me off, make out like it never happened and that we were nothing. I don’t even need your love, but you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough. No, you didn’t have to stoop so low, have your friends collect your records and then change your number. Guess that I don’t need that though. Now you’re just somebody that I used to know.

You used to shine so bright, but I watched all of it fade.