Today I

Today I saw someone so alone

Feeling for returned coins in the train station payphones

Right then I felt something unusual

I felt lost, but I knew just where I was

Today I didn't read the headlines

Instead I drank my coffee with Bukowski's 'Ham On Rye'

Thinking got to falling under the weather I guess

I got caught in the rain and I grew into a mess

I feel more unfamiliar every time I come home

I've started to question if it was ever home at all

But if it's not then I don't know where it could be

I'll try to forget it before it bothers me

Today I thought about last year

All the people who came along and all the ones who disappeared

There's still somebody who resides in my mind

I wonder if she remembers me or if she ever tries

So I followed her footsteps across that sleepy seashore

Brought purple flowers to her apartment and left them by the door

To commemorate our love, for all that it was worth

She kept the darkness away, like the stars against the earth

Today I watched the ferries from the docks

How they move across the water, turning into little dots

Right then I felt like I had grown up

And maybe all of this longing is just part of the plot