Why can’t you see? — You belong with me. 'Cause you are the best thing, that’s ever been mine. The stakes are high, the water's rough, but this love is ours. And you still would've been mine, we would've been timeless, 'cause I believe that we were supposed to find this. So, don’t read the last page, but I stay. And if the story is over, why am I still writing pages? I'm just a paperweight in shades of greige, spending my last coin so someone will tell me it'll be okay… Past me, I wanna tell you not to get lost in these petty things, your nemeses will defeat themselves before you get the chance to swing. Ask me what I learned from all those years, ask me what I earned from all those tears, ask me why so many fade, but I'm still here. Look at how my tears ricocheted… and I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want… So, now pretty baby I’m coming back home to you, as I said in my letters, now that I know better, I will never lose my baby again. All those nights, you kept me goin', swirled you into all of the poems. Now we're at the starting line, I did my time… Long story short, it was a bad time. But I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time, honey, I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time. I thought the plane was going down, how'd you turn it right around? The drought was the very worst, when the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst… the rain came pouring down, when I was drownin', that's when I could finally breathe. I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you, I was screaming, "Long live that look on your face." and bring on all the pretenders, I’m not afraid. If a man talks shit, then I owe him nothing. I'm on my vigilante shit again, I don't start shit, but I can tell you how it ends. Dear reader, bend when you can snap when you have to. I wrote a thousand songs that you find uncool, I built a legacy that you can't undo… but when I count the scars, there's a moment of truth… that there wouldn't be this if there hadn't been you. And I was catching my breath, floors of a cabin creaking under my step, and I couldn't be sure, I had a feeling so peculiar… this pain wouldn't be for evermore. What if I told you none of it was accidental and the first night that you saw me, I knew I’m gonna get you back. That was the night I nearly lost you, I really thought I lost you… we can plant a memory garden, say a solemn prayer place a poppy in my hair, there’s no morning glory it was war it wasn't fair… And we will never go back. Next chapter… And by mornin' gone was any trace of you, I think I am finally clean. I'm setting off, but not without my muse… no not without you. I don't wanna look at anything else now that I saw you, I don't wanna think of anything else now that I thought of you, I've been sleeping so long in a 20-year dark night, I only see daylight. There's a dazzling haze, a mysterious way about you, dear, have I known you 20 seconds or 20 years? Tonight I'm gonna dance all that we've been through, but I don't wanna dance if I'm not dancing with you. 50 years is a long time, Holiday House sat quietly on that beach… free of women with madness, their men and bad habits… and then it was bought by me… I had a marvelous time ruining everything. What if I told you I'm a Mastermind? And now you’re mine. Long story short, I survived. One day we will be remembered. Forever and ever… and always. This is a state of grace, this is the worthwhile fight, love is a ruthless game… unless you play it good and right. Always remember, we're burned for better, I vowed I would always be yours 'cause we survived the Great War. We changed the prophecy. These are the hands of fate. You're my Achilles heel. This is the golden age of something good and right and real… and I never saw you coming, and I'll never be the same. You’re on your own kid… yeah, you can face this. And at last she knew what the agony had been for… You’re on your own kid, you always have been. The only thing that's left is the manuscript, now and then I reread the manuscript the story isn't mine anymore.
