Darling, You Are Still Around

Despite the time

And many months

Of the cursed and calloused gaps

We've wrapped around us

And our shifting shores

Of shameless shams

And should have been's

I always seem to see

The outlines of your dreams

On the edge of mine

Which puts me on the edge of my seat

And I'll curse the day I ever met you

Faces have been lost a time within my mind

And drowned in wine

But darling you are still around

It may well be the naked night

That gnaws away

The necessity of skin

The thing that mars the Moon

And makes it so it's bare and bright within

But darling, you are running through my head

And these footprints you're leaving

Are where my memories tread

So I walk softly round the old familiars

Lovers have been lost a time in my mind

And I don't know why

But darling, you are still around

I know our page was in part brief

But please forgive my grievances, you see

It's not that I need you now

You were simply the best brief I have known

And I think that it shows

In the way you linger on

Within my songs

And I still laugh

At the way you live with your drug habits

Many have been lost a time in my mind

But I think you'll find

But darling, you are still around

Darling, you are still around