Lover Gone

Lover gone

This song is a good one

In four years I'll be anyone

But for four years long

I was there where you are

Lover gone

This song I swear is a kind one

'Cause the words I sing you once helped me write

And the fear I feel you once helped me fight

And my skin still holds light from the sun

On the beach where we first fell

Oh, lover gone

This song is not a love song

Because our love's gone

But the four letters of my name

Are still the first four of yours

The four posts around your bed

Are still the first in which I crawl

Without pretense, without purpose

Without drink, without remorse

When I gave to you four years

Out of my twenty-four

I gave to you four years

I gave to you four years

But couldn't bring myself to give you more

And lover gone

This song is not a long one

But for four years

We played safe

In a place that was warm