The Day I Met You

There are plenty many of you
you're a split personality
a sugar cube, dissolving in tea
you are the branches ripping out of me.

If I've forgotton how to speak
I only need to see your face
and a thousand words replace
that emptiness I own.

I had my little finger around it all
a total plan of course but then
the branches split off
to different walks of life
and some rotted before the others.

Days in the sunshine, I felt careless
everything was always better in summer.

Although I've been redeemed and
I am complete again I can't travel backwards
to relive those moments, so I grew new branches
to hang up my new memoirs.

You're in and out of fashion
quicker than a spark
of chemistry we may have or not felt
on the day we first embarked.

You taught me all I know
I copied you all the while
hoping to catch a glimpse of you
if we ever stole the show.

Another one appears
I'm ecstatic, I'm on drugs, I'm on fire
Then you crossed my sight
and I couldn't stop thinking
it felt so unbelievably right.

Goodbye my lover, be gone from all my senses
I'll be gone like a passing wind
Because you know they say

You can only beat jealousy
when you lose something
you really, really, really, love

And that was the day I met you.