(This is an old love song I wrote for a musically inclined ex-girlfriend named Melody)
It’s funny you know, a month ago
It was plain we were made for each other
You might say I was a coin and baby you were a slot
Until you heard of the words of another
To all the men you call friends I was your lover
To the women folk I was your beau
But what it was about me you believe you discovered
You’ve made it so clear that I’ll never know
You keep holding your breath while you wait for the stars
To get in line with the things that you do
I just wish you’d breathe in every now and again
So you wouldn’t be looking so blue
I’ll never know who threw the mud on your window
Or who put all the sand in your shoe
But don’t sit there and tell me I’m standing here lying
When you’ve got no idea what’s true
Oh the trouble in store with a love like yours
I never knew the one you from the other
And yeah you heard it from me that this absurdity
How it satisfies the lies of your mother
And while I’ve never been the man you think I am
You’re just a shadow of who you claim to be
And baby don’t take me wrong but when you sang your song
I couldn’t tell which was the real melody
