Night Windows

This song will always be for you
The one I did not write
The one I did not sing
To you
This song will always be yours

These four lonely chords
With a bass descending,
Brings me deeper, and closer
To confronting the lonely truth
This song is yours
It will always be for you

And I only listen when
I want to imagine myself, there
On a once well-loved street,
3am, and we’re laughing
Where dry leaves now crunch
And circle around me,
Dust stinging my eyes,
As if the wind is telling me
I have no business being there

I push play, and there you are
I hum along, and you’re smiling
Looking at me from a softly-lit window
On a street where you no longer live
My feet trod where you no longer will be,
And they pound, and pound, and pound
In panic at pavement, in time with the song
I did not write for you,
As if more steps will bring me closer,
As if more time will bring you back

I’m singing your song,
The one I didn’t write for you
And I’m crying a little,
Although its very uncharacteristic
And not like me at all
But you were always doing that,
Making me human
Making me sing songs I would never write

-J