i know i'll never see you

i know i'll never run into your body walking through the crooked streets

i know i'll never hear you

i know i'll never hear you like a sound that wafts inside from outside there

i know that if i waited i know that if i wait a thousand days will lie wasted with thoughts of you

my love i've pictured this:

your violet eyelids opened to say "here's where you've been"

your lips open to say "my darling it's been so very long and i'm in pain"

i know i'll never feel you

i know i'll never get so close to you that i can't smell anything else

i know i'll never see you

i know that where you go i'll still be far from where you are

my love i've pictured this:

your violet eyelids opened to say "here's where you've been"

your lips open to say "my darling it's been so very long and i'm in pain" sometimes i picture all your fingers

sometimes they're crawling down my spine

sometimes they're buttoning your jacket

sometimes you're far but you're still mine

i know that it is raining

and i know that the rain will soak you through

and leave you like the tattered sky

i know i go in circles

i know that window panes bring only rain and not your face

sometimes i picture all your fingers

sometimes they're crawling down my spine

sometimes they're buttoning your jacket

sometimes you're far but you're still mine

i know that it is raining and

i know that the rain will soak you through and leave you like the tattered sky

i know i go in circles

i know that window panes bring only rain and not your face