• Taking backwards steps
    Every few feet
    Looking longingly
    At where failure and you meet

    You dropped a little back
    When I walked straight on
    Didn't even notice
    Until you were long gone

    I'd never turn back now
    You're too far behind
    You sit a single thought
    In the back of my mind

    When something good happens
    That's when you flood through
    To bring to mind how
    I ******** up everything I do

    When I think we should try again
    I realize you're so over me
    It's the most obvious, painful thing
    That I can ever see

    The only real love I had
    That held me so close, so long
    It never struck me I would hold
    Right back just this strong

    Long after you've let me go
    I cling to some last shred
    A note in my pocket
    The words well known and read

    Just a distant reminder
    Of how I want things to be
    Searching for something better
    Than what you were with me

    Such high standards
    So many people fall
    Hope the perfect one
    Is somewhere in them all

    You find yourself for once
    You know I've got your back
    Moving on while holding up
    What the hole in my life lacks.