The phone shocks you out of sleep like a fire alarm   He reaches to answer it but you restrain his arm   She cries so hard it distorts the speaker on the answering machine   And there you lie in between      You ask him if he loves you and he tells you yes   But he’s never going to settle for second best   It’s natural to want the thing you can’t possess   Which is why to him you’ll always be second best      Against your own advice you fell in love with him   After she let him go on just another whim   But now she sees that somebody treasures him   Suspicion fills her mind   What did she leave behind?      He needs to have something just beyond his reach   Drama and action and uncertainty   The relentless pursuit of insecurity   All those things he provides for you   Though you’ll never admit you crave them too      At their computer screens   They talk without a sound   His wallet still hides the proof of paradise unfound   He never finished the song he wrote for her   The ending wasn’t clear   When would she reappear?