A Letter to Elise

Oh, Elise, it doesn't matter what you say

Just can't stay here every yesterday

Like keep on acting out the same, the way we act out

Every wait is smile, forget

And make believe we never need it anymore than this

Anymore than this

Oh, Elise, it doesn't matter what you do

No, I'll never really get inside of you

To make your eyes catch fire the way they should

The way their blue could pull me in

If they only would, if they only would

At least I'd lose this sense of sensing something else that hides away

For me and you, they're worlds apart

With taking looks and breaking hearts

And all the prayers your hands could make

Why just take as much as you can throw

No, I throw it all away

Oh, I throw it all away

Like throwing faces at the sky, like throwing it all down

Yesterday I couldn't stand my eyes in front of you

And the face I saw looked like the way I want it to

But I just can't hold my tears away the way you do

Elise believe I never wanted to

I thought this time I'd keep all of my promises

I thought you were the girl I always dreamed about

But I let the dream go, and the promises broke

And the make believe ran out

So Elise, it doesn't matter what you say

Just can't stay here every yesterday

Like keep on acting out the same the way we act out

Every wait is smile, forget

And make believe, we never need it anymore than this

Anymore than this

Every time I tried to pick you up like falling sand

I start as I pick it up, it runs away through my clutching hands

There's nothing else I can really do, there's nothing else I can really do

There's nothing else I can really do at all