I'm listening even if I don't really want to. I'm listening to you and I'm listening to the silence I keep responding with whenever you bring this up whenever you (we) get like this which is why you keep asking me if I've fallen asleep.
You have my attention; you have it more than I want to tell you since telling you is the same as breaking a superstition and I've never been very superstitious but there's a first time for everything.
It's a distraction, all of these words I like you, dropped off the side of the highway I want you, shot through window glass out of an abandoned office building I love you, misplaced over and over, met in the train station, met on the gondola not moving fast enough, met in the cider mill outside of a town I think would have been nice to grow up in, met in the dark - - the place I know you best.
(Even if I pretend not to. This used to be convenient. This used to be easy. I think.)
I'm listening even if I don't really want to. I'm listening to you even if I already know what you're going to say.
I love you.
She used to say that too.
And I don't think it means the same thing but sometimes it's hard to tell.
I'm listening to you and I'm listening
to the silence I keep responding with
whenever you bring this up
whenever you (we) get like this
which is why you keep asking me if I've fallen
asleep.
You have my attention; you have it more than I want to tell you
since telling you is the same as breaking a superstition
and I've never been very superstitious but there's
a first time for everything.
It's a distraction, all of these words
I like you, dropped off the side of the highway
I want you, shot through window glass out of an abandoned office building
I love you, misplaced
over and over,
met in the train station, met on the gondola not moving fast enough, met in the cider mill outside of a town I think would have been nice to grow up in, met in the dark -
- the place I know you best.
(Even if I pretend not to.
This used to be convenient.
This used to be easy.
I think.)
I'm listening even if I don't really want to.
I'm listening to you even if I
already know
what you're going to say.
I love you.
She used to say that too.
And I don't think it means the same thing
but sometimes it's hard to tell.
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