Well it's five in the morning
and the light's
already broken
And the rainy
streets are empty
for nobody else has woken
Yet you turn
towards the window
as he sleeps
beneath the covers
And you wonder what
he's dreaming in his slumbers
There's a clock
upon the table
and it's burning up the hour
And you feel your
life is shrinking
like the petals of a flower
As you creep
towards the closet
you're so careful
not to wake him
And you choose
the cotton dress
you bought last summer
There's a time of
indecision between
the bedroom and the door
But the part of you
that knows that
you can't take it any more
There's the promise of the
future in the
creaking of the floor
And you're torn if you should
leave him with a number
And in your imagination
you're a thousand miles away
Because too many of his
promises got broken on the way
So you write
it in a letter all
the things you couldn't say
And you tell him that
you're never coming home
She starts running for the
railway station praying that
her calculation's right
And there's a
train just waiting
there to get her to
the city before night
A place to sleep a place
to stay will get her
through another day
She'll take a job she'll find
a friend she'll make
a life that's better
The passengers ignore
her just a girl
with an umbrella
And there's nothing
they can do for her,
there's nothing
they can tell her
There's nothing they could
ever say would change the
way she feels today
She'd live the life she'd
always dreamed if
he had only let her
Now in her imagination
she's a million miles away
When too many of his
promises got broken
on the way
So she wrote it in a letter
all the things
she couldn't say
And she told him
she was never coming home
She told him she
was never coming home
I wake up in an empty bed
a road drill hammers
in my head
I call her name there's no
reply it's not like
her to let me lie
It's time for work it's time
to go but something's
different I don't know
I need a cup of coffee
I'll feel better
I stumble to the
bathroom door,
her make up bag is
on the floor
It really is a mess
this place it
takes some time
to shave my face
I'm not really
thinking straight
she never lets me
sleep this late
I'm almost done and
then I see the letter
In his imagination
she's a universe away
Too many of his promises
got broken on the way
So she wrote it in a letter
all things she couldn't say
And she told him she
was never coming home,
She told him she was
never coming home,
She told him she was
never coming home
I'm gonna live my life
I'm gonna live my life
I'm gonna live my life
And she told him she
was never coming home
And she told him she
was never coming home
