When you say why you are going away    You defy me to be there    All your big deals and all of your days    You said you wouldn't but you still care    Everything you need is a delicate disaster    A brief catastrophe just to see if       I could find a way to stay and make this place    Somewhere that I could try and hold on    And give up on this chase that you say       I can't let it go    I'm at the end of my rope    I needed someone to show me everything    And I thought you could wait    Through my missteps and mistakes    I needed someone to say    That you'd be here anyway       When did you start to finally see    My melancholy habit    An affection for tragedy    Should've loved it when you had it    Everyday I'm gone    Breaking pieces off my memory    But you remember wrong    With the hope that       I could find a way to stay and make this place    Somewhere that I could try and hold on    And give up on this chase that you say       I can't let it go    I'm at the end of my rope    I needed someone to show me everything    And I thought you could wait    Through my missteps and mistakes    I needed someone to say