Her traveler’s books   Are gathering dust on the shelf   Will somebody else read them now?   She doesn't need telling   She's studied the lie of the land      With no slight of hand   She shuffles her memory cards   'Til one of them falls into place   She hands me her door key   As if she were playing an ace   Clubs, diamonds, and spades      Now I can breathe easy   I breathe easy   I breathe easy   Since she left me   Time waves goodbye      She sends funny letters   Peppered with lines that she stole   She'd plagiarize whole paragraphs   Of no fixed abode   RSVP don't answer back      She's almost a stranger   A bird that took flight long ago   But I wait by the phone for her call   A change in the season   Precipitates no change at all   Spring, Summer, and Fall      I wish I could breathe easy   I breathe easy   I breathe easy   Since she left me   Time waves goodbye      I need somebody   To fill up my cup to the brim   I'm faltering in midstream   Show me the water   That washes my memory clean      I want to breathe easy   I breathe easy   I breathe easy   Since she left me   Time waves goodbye   Time waves goodbye