Fern Mackenzie - I Could Leave at Any Time

My heart feels like a stone
With everything I want to say to you
But I will leave you alone
Cos I know that's all that you want me to do

I'm sitting all alone at the rocky riverside
Watching the water course along and writhe
And I'm trying to recall a melody from my dream
But it's like a fading afterimage of some sight I've never seen

You were so afraid
But why didn't you just say
You already knew you were done
When you sent me away
When you admitted you already found a place in Pittsburgh
I felt the fiber of my soul shred with that
All along you knew you didn't love me
Don't you think you should have led with that?

My heart is in a vice
From everything that you have said to me
You cast me aside
No you would not hear one word of my pleas

Like I'm seventeen again I walk through my old neighborhood
With my headphones on to shut out the world for good
Well the wayward wisps of clouds brushed by the wind
Are gossamer strands of grief pulling me back in

I know you couldn't take
My anti-social behavior
And my manipulative ways
And my tendency toward failure
But I moved twelve hundred miles
To build a life with you
And now I'm back in Texas
Just to get the knife from you

I could leave at any time
I could put down this guitar and grab my gun
I could get in my car and live on the run
Charge the trip to my credit card and drive up to Maine
Find some midnight dockyard and I could quell this shame
Chamber one round and I could end it all
To break the curse of your calamitous memory

Written by:
Fernando Mackenzie

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