Sincerely, Me

(album: The Shadow Thieves - 2016)

So here I am once again writing to your my dear
I just need a way you can't talk back your point of view
Searching for words, erasing the slurs
I'm waiting in an aged café where I sought shelter from the pouring rain

With nobody to meet I sit and think
Contradicting what I once thought was perfect
My mind is racing but I can't stop writing
Every time a draft is done I start back at square one

You're my inspiration
My poetic license
You kept me sane with these pages
I'd rather write it than say it
I've got everything I need
Isolation it seems
You find that hard to believe but I'm writing history

I don't want to specify a single thing; I'm gone
I don't want to reminisce about the things you've done

Tuned into nothing the radio sounds
As I try to wrap my head around these coffee stains and off set lines

Just let me go
I need this more than you know
So fuck it, let me go

You're over-thinking everything just like me
Blindly pacing back and forth for answers you'll never see

You're my inspiration
My poetic license
You kept me sane with these pages
I'd rather write it than say it
I've got everything I need
Isolation it seems
You find that hard to believe but I'm writing history

With a stone in hand and a letter to say farewell
It's time I disappeared
I'll tie these words to the cobblestone
With a stone in hand and letter to say farewell
I'll make these world my own as I tie these words to the cobblestone

When you're a sinking ship you take every moment to breathe
You're just a ghost of a ghost
A soul that's lost at sea

Dear significant other
This letter's for you
Fuck you and everything you put me through
So read it once, read it slow
This was never meant to be
Signed sincerely me