Never Coming Home
Well it's five in the morning and the light's already brokenAnd the rainy streets are empty for nobody else has wokenYet you turn towards the window as he sleeps beneath the coversAnd you wonder what he's dreaming in his slumbers
There's a clock upon the table and it's burning up the hourAnd you feel your life is shrinking like the petals of a flowerAs you creep towards the closet you're so careful not to wake himAnd you choose the cotton dress you bought last summer
There's a time of indecision between the bedroom and the doorBut the part of you that knows that you can't take it any moreThere's the promise of the future in the creaking of the floorAnd you're torn if you should leave him with a number
And in your imagination you're a thousand miles awayBecause too many of his promises got broken on the waySo you write it in a letter all the things you couldn't sayAnd you tell him that you're never coming home
She starts running for the railway station praying that her calculation's rightAnd there's a train just waiting there to get her to the city before nightA place to sleep a place to stay will get her through another dayShe'll take a job she'll find a friend she'll make a life that's better
The passengers ignore her just a girl with an umbrellaAnd there's nothing they can do for her, there's nothing they can tell herThere's nothing they could ever say would change the way she feels todayShe'd live the life she'd always dreamed if he had only let her
Now in her imagination she's a million miles awayWhen too many of his promises got broken on the waySo she wrote it in a letter all the things she couldn't sayAnd she told him she was never coming homeShe told him she was never coming home
I wake up in an empty bed a road drill hammers in my headI call her name there's no reply it's not like her to let me lieIt's time for work it's time to go but something's different I don't knowI need a cup of coffee I'll feel better
I stumble to the bathroom door, her make up bag is on the floorIt really is a mess this place it takes some time to shave my faceI'm not really thinking straight she never lets me sleep this lateI'm almost done and then I see the letter
In his imagination she's a universe awayToo many of his promises got broken on the waySo she wrote it in a letter all things she couldn't sayAnd she told him she was never coming home,She told him she was never coming home,She told him she was never coming home
I'm gonna live my lifeAnd she told him she was never coming homeI'm gonna live my life in my own way