Cover the Light - Paula Poundstone

I walked through the door with you, the air was cold

But something about it felt like home somehow

And I left my scarf there at your sister’s house

And you still got it in your drawer, even now

Oh, your sweet disposition and my wide-eyed gaze

We’re singing in the car getting lost upstate

Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place

And I can picture it after all these days

And I know it’s long gone

And that magic’s not here no more

And I might be okay

But I’m not fine at all

'Cause there we are again, on that little town street

You almost ran the red 'cause you were looking over me

Wind in my hair, I was there, I remember it all too well

Photo album on the counter, your cheeks were turning red

You used to be a little kid with glasses in a twin-sized bed

Your mother’s telling stories about you on the tee ball team

You tell me about your past, thinking your future was me

And I know it’s long gone

And there’s nothing else I could do

And I forget about you long enough

To forget why I needed to

'Cause there we are again, in the middle of the night

We’re dancing around the kitchen in the refrigerator light

Down the stairs, I was there, I remember it all to well, yeahh

And maybe we got lost in translation, maybe I asked for too much

But maybe this thing was a masterpiece 'til you tore it all up

Running scared, I was there, I remember it all too well

Maybe you call me up again just to break me like a promise

So casually cruel in the name of being honest

I’m a crumpled up piece of paper lying here

'Cause I remember it all, all, all too well

Time won’t fly, it’s like I’m paralyzed by it

I’d like to be my old self again, but I’m still trying to find it

After plaid shirt days and nights when you made me your own

Now you mail back my things and I walk home alone

But you keep my old scarf from that very first week

'Cause it reminds you of innocence and it smells like me

You can’t get rid of it 'cause you remember it all too well, yeah

'Cause there we are again, when I loved you so

Back before you lost the one real thing you’ve ever known

It was rare, I was there, I remember it all too well

Wind in my hair, you were there, you remember it all

Down the stairs, you were there, 'cause you remember it all

It was rare, I was there, I remember it all too well