Water Water Everywhere

You said "the hardest time is when i'm alone"

Then you sighed a goodbye and hung up the telephone

And me in the noise with a glass half full of beer

I'd have to admit it was really quite nice

To be out with the people and lights

Then the band asked how we were doing tonight

Just at the point that i'd been feeling fine

Then they played an ordinary song

Outside it rained an ordinary rain

Then this guy tapped my shoulder, he said he liked our show

We sounded just like some band from a decade ago

And i smiled as he spoke, and i think i shook his hand

But i certainly don't remember his name

For a moment i thought that the right thing to do

Would be to quick call you back, say, "i'm struck by loneliness too"

Though that sounds like an awful lie

When there's scores of people around

So i ran to the drugstore

I bought a postcard instead

And i wrote these words beneath the letterhead

Love, we all do struggle with loneliness

Love, i am often very afraid

That the best times that we'll have are somewhere in the past

And it's all fool's gold

To hope for a better life