If You Don't, Don't

what's wrong baby? 
don't they treat you like they should? 
did you take them for it 
or every penny that you could? 
we once walked out on the beach and once i almost touched your hand 
o, how i dreamed to finally say such things 
then only to pretend 


don't you know i'm thinking? 
driving 405 past midnight 
you know i miss you 
ninth and ash on a tuesday night 
i would write to you from museum mile 
toast to you: 
your whisper 
your smile 
up the stairs at the wheatherford 
a ghost each place i hide 


i left you waiting
at the least could we be friends? 
should have never started 
ain't that the way it always ends? 
on my life i'll try today 
there's so much i've felt i should say but 
even if your heart would listen i doubt i could explain 


so here we are now 
a sip of wine 
a sip of water 
someday maybe 
maybe someday we'll be smarter 
i'm sorry that i'm such a mess 
i drank all my money could get, 
took everything that you had and never loved you back 


would you mean this please if it happens? 
won't you get your story straight? 
if you don't know, honey why'd you just say so? 
i need this now more than i ever did 
if you don't know, 
well honey, 
then you don't