Music is louder when you're alone...
And here I am, on my own again
I know I was always alone...
Sitting here in my tree
With only my thoughts for company

But now the Sun is setting...
This day is at an end
And one of us is leaving
But I can't tell which one
Maybe it's both of us...
Are we going the same way
Or just to the same place?

She's pushing me away...
But asking if she can come too
She'll never be happy either way
Not with memories to make her cry

Even if I leave, I won't have gone

For, as well as a friend...
I am an echo of the man she loved
Still polluting her present tense
She's escaped from the cage
Into another one...
But it's still the same
Like she walked through a mirror
But never reflected...

So here I am, alone...
But she's here, even though she never was
Have I woken from the dream
Or am I just sleep walking?
Maybe I never slept at all...

I feel for the tree
Because I know how it feels...
To be cut down and stripped
And I know to fear it...
But I can never avoid it

I think I am leaving...
No destination, except for away
And as I walk into the evening Sun
I hear her voice calling
In her soft, warm, comforting tones...
"Come back soon," she says
"And I will dance once more..."

Never stop for me...
I'm not worth the wait.

06/16/2000

Posted on 10/13/2001
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