Paper

 

I've touched every detail of you in paper

Wrote down every letter of your favorite things

Heard your favorite lyrics each day since November

Used every sense to find out what he thinks.

I've crossed all these roads trying my best to find you

In a world I knew you could never be

Ran away from my feelings, did the things that you do

Hoping one day you could do them with me.

Wandering 'round the cities across the whole world

Discovering you through the people I meet

Heard the echoes in my head of your every word

As I was walking down the very same street.

I've touched every detail of you in paper

And it felt so wrong, knowing you were not mine

All these things you won't get to know, to remember

The forgotten "hello", replaced by "goodbye".

They say in a different world we chose something else

You'd stay and you'd call me how you do in my dreams

In a different world it would make much more sense

As in this one, you see, nothing is what it seems.

I used every sense to get closer this time,

Then avoided the world that I have created

Burned down all that I had and then threw a dime

Made a wish, then let go, but my wish never faded.

I keep thinking "what feeds this never ending feeling?"

As I see only emptiness ahead of me

I gave up trying long ago, never willing

To accept that I still want you next to me.

Now I keep you in paper each and every day

Among all other things you'll never get to see

I keep you in paper, it's the only way

That I could meet you and you could meet me.