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By the time you wake
I will be long gone
Up in the air
Looking over the cotton candy clouds

By the time you open your eyes
I would have said my last goodbye
To all the things I knew
And all the things I didn't

As I travel through time
Turning back the hands of the clock
My mind will race through the memories
That it can still hold on to
Because as painful as it is
I am the one who paved the way
And I don't ever want to forget

The way the couch sinks in and the way the smoke alarm
sings
The faded dials on the oven, and the way we never knew
What temperature our chicken roasted in, but we roasted the
chicken anyway
The searing heat and playing tennis with you,
Through the faces of world champions, at the mercy of our
controlling fingers
I didn't want to lose to you, and you wouldn't let me win
I hated it but I miss my rage 
And the way you laughed at me

I'll miss your crazy impulse, and the way your coat stinks
of work
How you'll starve because you spent last week's pay,
On an accidental wild night out
I'll miss your Asian and Nazi jokes, 
Because you're a bloody racist but really you're not,
How you'll get an idea, and leave the country for two weeks,

But wait that's what I did,
Only I never came back

I'll miss how you tower over me
Because no on will ever be the same
No one will ever christened me, 
With the birds and the bees talk on my 18th
And certainly no one will ever,
Say it like you did

But I'll remember our talks and the differences we had
Our ambitions that never converge
But our wildest dreams that did
I'll remember the time you cried
Because you were the first that did
To ever shed a tear, for a simple girl like me
You had a little too much to drink
But didn't we all?

And by the time you wake,
All of this would be long gone
Posted: 2013-05-21 22:34:09 UTC

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