I know you’re going soon   It’s ok, I won’t freak   Can see it in your eyes, you’ve been moving out for weeks   You’ve found a girl, she’s so much prettier than me   She’s much cleverer than me   She’s so much happier than me      You want a lover who takes time over her looks   Not some stupid kid who’s always wrapped up in her books   But can I help it if a sentence makes me cry?   And the pavement makes me cry   And the thought of you and I      Oh, just leave   There’s nothing much I want to say   But close the door   You know how the atmosphere decays my bones   I feel the atoms on my skin   Oh, I feel the matter closing in      From my perch I see the universe as one   See the planets in their glory, slowly dancing with the sun   See my ancestors in monkey costumes fucking on the rocks   See the priestess and her brother and the farmer and his crops      All these sacred histories have led to this one day   When you face me on the stairs and say you have to go away   And time stops like ice where all around it once was hot   So don’t begrudge a girl her books cos they’re all a girl has got      They sit there now   The words unflinching in their strength   You see I only ever read   Cos I wish I was brave as them   And I know these words will never leave me standing on the stairs   Just like my frozen ancestors they always will be there   In print, just like your image on my heart   For ever like the planets light the dark   Just like our world is waltzing with the sun   Just like when this world explodes it makes another one      Oh you, just leave   I always wanted you to be free   But next time you see the planets try and think of me   And this moment on a stairway where I thought that I could see   All the atoms in your lover, she’s much prettier than me   And can I help it if an atom makes me cry?   I can’t help it if she’s happier than I