Cherry Trees

Before you go runnin’ away, don’t forget to pay the plastic man

For all of your loans and attachments

Remember to happily wave to the grim cavalcades

Who long predicted your exit

And don’t you mind me, this smile that you see

Is just one of bemused detachment

As you go on your way, I’ll clasp my hands and pray

That when someone speaks, you might listen

Not just attack it

The cherry trees rain down their petals in the city’s middle of May

And it’s just as well

‘Cause they gave your departure a romance that sealed the deal

And now you’re gone for real or so you tell

But I hesitate to take you at your word,

It’s never done a lick of good before

So if you come crawlin’ back, smoking cloves and dressed in black,

Don’t expect me to let you in

right in through my door.

Every time you talk at me

In condescending elegies

As if I was the one out of control

Your reproach falls empty by

The piles of lies stacked 12 feet high

Don’t act like I’m the one who let the bad times roll

‘Cause everyone’s got their problems

And god knows you’ve become one of mine

But one thing before you go

It’s selfish to say but won’t you go

Go far, far away

There’s one thing for sure I know

Being so far from home, you’ll feel so all alone

No one to beat up, no one to touch you

And maybe, just maybe then

The wasted love of all your friends

Will rise up, bittersweet memories clutchin at you

To hug you