I should have never crossed your path   Funny how the things you want the most   Should soon be taken back   Slap my own hands like a child   Stealing from the candy store   I think I've taken to your smile   And I hunger for your laugh   Do the craziest things like look around   When I know you're nowhere near me   Break my back on a song   Though I know you're not there to hear it   Unanswered questions lying on the coffee table   From a song I haven't finished since last summer   Because I never could decide how much was gin   And how much the sea   Or other incidentals clouding what was really me   Everything I am is bare feet and burning sand   Waiting for the calm cool hand of the sea   A madman of emotions waiting for the drug effect   Of the reason and the intellect to comfort me   Half the time I love you like I love the fall's first breeze   And then you seem as distant to me as the skeletons of trees   Far away outside my window   But inside I think of you   As if I thouht hard enough I'd know which way to turn   And what to do.   I'm quite sure I'll be alright   We all live with some distraction   It's just too bad mine will hang around   All day and night   Like an uninvited guest   You can't turn away, try hard as you might   Lord knows, I've tried   I might let it go and take a long long run   Quit my job and join the coastline baking in the sun   (My tape cuts off here.)