Just when I think I've learned it all
I see your face and down I fall
I can't explain so let's pretend
That I'm content being your friend

If time is the ultimate healer
I'm afraid that you have no cure
Just distractions to keep me near
And from running out the back

It feels a lot
Like saying goodbye
Don't draw it out
Love it's bleeding me dry

Last month I spent
A week with my heart in New York
In LA it changed, you feel so much further
Than ever before

I watched the lines all blur and fall between
The places that I t

I wish you the best
I sat on my father's grave
I smoked a cigarette

Putting thoughts of you, like him, to rest
And I wait
Like an actor with scripted lines
Absorbed in his own designs
Too anxious to make an effort to relate

I made you a promise I'd see the sto