Prolonged Exposure

Let's leave our heads for a day
When you got sick you said
Let's leave our heads for a day
When you got sick you said to wait for it to change
But it grew when you left and I'm stuck with this weight on my chest

I'm betting on the breakers
I'm stuck with myself and the fact that I couldn't see

Through a thirteen year old lens
Which lends myself to believe
That I'm breathing in the same sea that you breathed
The cancer that you fought, it brought a lot of pain
I'm itching at an old wound
I'm stitching up the seams

I get comfort from tales that I've heard
When you'd grab your girl and say
"I love you more than dawn on the sea
Oh, what you mean to me"
It's a far cry to say I got away