A Letter To Georgia - The Airborne Toxic Event, The Calder Quartet

How can I explain to you the picture of this avenue?

The rain falls on the street outside my window on this Tuesday afternoon

I sit alone inside these same four walls I’ve lived inside

So many lives I’ve lived and died;

none so much as the one I lived with you

I see you on the highway a thousand miles away

Rain falls through your hair and cheeks

Tears and mascara streaks

Your face reflected in the glass

Lines in the pavement go past just like the lines around your eyes that held

the weight of all these sad goodbyes

Everybody that I know thinks that I should just let you go

You run from everything, they say

Hurt the ones you love like me

But here I sit and picture you your fingers worn, your shirt torn through

A heart so big it broke in two

Your mind drifting through all you knew

Afraid to love;

afraid to lose;

Afraid to start;

afraid to choose;

Afraid to live;

afraid to die;

Afraid to let these days slip by;

Afraid to change or stay the same;

Afraid to lose yourself again;

Afraid of this truth that love could cause you so much pain

I know

I felt it, too

I know

I know

Sweetheart, I wish it wasn’t true