As I said goodbye...
Her smile said "see you soon"
And her eyes said "I want you...
"To give me a dream..."

And I remembered wanting her
When she was my dream
My unattainable...

She was my Sun...
But I never ventured into her sky
Because his stars were all
That she ever saw.

I remember how it felt
Ecstatic but hopeless...
Soaring but falling...
And all the time she smiled

I don't think she knew how to know me
But now to her I am someone
Not an event...
A someone...

But she is the same to me...
The sunrise of the day that never was...
The star I never saw at night...
The fire that left me cold

The girl I never knew
Because I spent too long
Getting to know her

Her smile still hits me
In the centre of the heart
And her eyes still say she wants me...
But I know she never will

So I try to pretend she's someone else
Not the girl I adored
Because I hate to feel this way...
To feel fooled...
To be fooled still

So I say goodbye...
To the smile that says "see you soon"
And the eyes that say "I want you".

07/19/2000

Posted on 07/14/2004
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