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By Tanqueray Cowboy Date: 2004 Jun 15 Comment on this Work [[2004.06.15.22.12.7166]] |
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will you ever understand that i couldn't ask until now? and now it's too late too late to ask you here to extend the invitation you've always had to make this backward town bearable to bring me your body to warm my bed and your laughter to warm my heart to be again the friend you always were (twenty years flown so quickly) and the lover you should have been (I can't help but wonder what we'd still discover) but as i said, it's too late too late to say i'll meet the train whenever you say no we're too rational too logical both of us so cautious and calculating will you ever believe that the time just wasn't right? not for me not for you it's different now, of course, but it's much too late you've taken a lover (to whom I owe nothing) (not one thought) (not one courtesy) oh no you who are so cautious would so easily find this man to replace me? when you were so close to what you thought you needed were you just that wrong? about me about us about yourself? no matter i'll meet the train -- any train that brings you to me any time any place it'll be a long drive home (the trains don't stop here anymore) and it'll be late but maybe the moon will be full here on the southern plains and the summer road will stretch before us pale and awesome lonely and quiet as we drive you and i together but, of course, it's far, far too late to ask you this but i would still be there be there to meet your train |