Soft white sands as far as your eyes can see
Top layer grains gently pushed by the breeze
The water plays with your feet and you smile
Here is heaven on earth, you can't help but think
Your eyes travel to meet mine
And look away just as quickly
You seem embarrassed tonight
Just by our closer proximity
Do you want me to go?
I'd rather be where I don't feel
Like a massive burden to you
Or any of your blind friends
You ask me to stay one more time
I can see through your pitiful lies
You want me gone, you want me dead
You want me anywhere but here
Does your heart beat so loyally
To the girl who doesn't want it to
That you can't even turn to face me
While I'm trying to talk to you?
Your tired eyes tell a different story now
You aren't the same person I once loved
You've grown bitter and cold and irritable
And no one recognizes your smile anymore
Your friends are whispering behind you
They're telling me that you're not the same
They say they are growing weary of you
But something tells me you don't care
Something is telling me that
Your one and only thought right now
Is still your lost cause girl
And not the people you keep hurting
When you wind up lonely and empty
After you leave for your far colder place
Will you stay in your desolate winter cabin?
Or will you join me back on our beach?
The ducks here patter their feet unknowingly
Their small pointed tails shake with glee
They'll never know the symbol they hold,
A fire put out by the most selfish ashes
You hold your withering match for one more month
And come back tomorrow asking for a lighter
You'll come back to embers eventually,
A bonfire you didn't care to maintain
You remind me of him these days,
A bitter soul who took fire for granted
He's been truly alone now for years
I suspect you'll feel just as cold soon
Your lack of apology and half assed lies
Convince me you haven't changed a bit
Since I met you two long years ago,
A child who doesn't understand priorities
You won't find she's as patient as I was
Eventually you'll realize I was the exception
I frequently gave you everything I had
And someday, I swear, you'll miss me
Surround yourself with people who don't care
Tell yourself the lie that you're happier there
Your illusions are set to a decreasing timer
And your last grain of salt is alarmingly near
I'm done crying over something you lost
I'm free now, free from the debt I felt with you
I don't owe you anything, I was a privilege
And you lost any right you had to my love
So fade away from my subconscious mind,
Let me feel comfortable with people who care
And stop chasing the ghostly feeling I felt
From being in love with someone who can't love
I genuinely hope you're doing well tonight
And that your dreams are comforting to you
I hope what you're looking for comes to pass
And that you never feel as empty as I did
I still love you, as I once promised I always would
And if you ever come back you'll still have a home
Here on the little beach you abandoned for snow,
Where the ducks and the waves dance gently
And in the reflection of the ocean, see me smile
Turn around and realize there's a place for the sun
Your footsteps fade from the soft wet sand
And our past is carried away with the tide
