You Don't Miss Me

ORIGINAL POST DATE: 8/4/10

This is a song I wrote in response to an emotional breakup I have experienced recently. Although it is written in the perspective of a lovers' relationship, the song for me personally is NOT about the relationship between lovers, but about this situation in my life, and for everyone else, about all types of relationships, and how sometimes when they end, the other people involved are not as affected by it as we are, and how that surprises us, and how much it can hurt. It's also a song about moving on when we part ways, even though sometimes things don't end the way we wished they would. Life is messy. Get dirty. Wash up. Move on. Forgive.

---soul




YOU DON'T MISS ME (Copyright 2010)

VERSE 1
I wrote the script I know the story
like a movie I've seen a thousand times.
Love falls apart, you break my heart
but I read the book and I can read between the lines.

So I leave before the lights come up
Gotta show you that I knew the ending all along.
I pack my bags I hit the road
I tune my radio to some sad lover's song.

Now I'm waiting by the phone.
But you're not calling me to come home.


CHORUS
When did I miss the part
where you don't miss me?
Where's the line where you apologize and kiss me?
When did you write this final scene?
Was our love story just a dream?
When did I miss the part
where you don't miss me?


VERSE 2
I was a fool I let you in
Called you lover and friend but I was blind
Laid down my guard, played all my cards
And when the chips were down I still called you mine

But I've got no time for tears
Won't mourn all those wasted years without some lessons learned.
There are lines we never read

So many chapters in my head, but now that book is burned.

Sometimes it takes a broken heart
To find out where your story starts


CHORUS
When did I miss the part
Where you don't miss me?
Where's the line where you apologize and kiss me?
When did you write this final scene?
Was our love story just a dream?
When did I miss the part
Where you don't miss me?


CHORUS 2
When did I miss the part
Where you don't miss me?
I gave you everything I had and that's what gets me.
How can you let me walk away
Why aren't you begging me to stay?
When did I miss the part
Where you don't miss me?

When did I miss the part
Where you don't miss me?