Why I'm Not Where You Are - The American Scene

It’s been so long since you and I could be alone

And I’ve been torn between home and where my heart is Our slow dissolving distance

And the chords I mix my voice with

You said «kid you seem down enough for the both of us,

And you knew better than to start that game»

So I spent that night with my tongue tied, wrapped up in a strangers name.

And everything changed but I still swore we’d stay the same

Growing up made us ghosts trapped inside the stories we wrote

But we were still kids when this got away from me There’s nothing keeping me anymore

And I’ve been thinking we’re better off but I’m never sure

I took my heart across state lines

I fell apart hoping I might find

Something left behind from the last time someone tore out my insides

Resolute but weak at the knees

Weathered and withered into a different me From wanting nothing more than to be anything you need

And all I needed was one good reason to say I had to go In this city it’s easy to forget your way back home

So this is home away from home

On your couch and on my own

Just sleeping it off, feeling this all

Over and over

I think we both know where this ends

Still I keep writing your name in every city I see

Just to feel that you’re a part of everything you swore that I could be