Beautiful Enough To Frame

Time

Hi
My name is time
I'm that thought in the back of your mind
Every time you try to write
But your eyes always go blind
Or those words in your mouth
That always seem to go south
I won't let you hold a conversation let alone even rhyme
I'm every second, every hour
You think of the gun on the counter
When I don't work in your favor
You say the blame is all mine
I'm the one who got away
When it was you who couldn't stay
And every time that you replay it
It always leads you astray
But what about the moments I won't let you forget
Like the times you held her hand and said
God this is great
Or the nights when you would fight and cry until the morning
But you would wake up with the sun and say at least it's not pouring
See what you don't understand is that I don't control you
You build your roads and burn your bridges and expect me to support you
I give you time with these people
So you could all grow together
Not wash away every time you have to storm through some weather
I bet you think this is easy
Doing the things that I do
But you don't have to wake up and put on my dirty old shoes
I strive for days and weeks and months for your ass
And half of the time you don't even wake up for class
I'm trying to give you all the things that you want
But it's so hard when every single error's my fault
Spending my days giving you this and that
And having to come home just to deal with your crap
God if only you could see how much I actually suffer
You would expect me to say that I have defeated tougher
But the fact of the matter is that your life is hard
And you're messing with more time than you actually borrowed
So I wrote you this hoping that you would finally change
For you to get your life together and to just rearrange
The time in both of us is slowly starting to fade
And I don't want to go back up there saying
I've made a mistake