Where I Live Now

I dreamt you as something that I'd always known
A relief to my profile, a parallel mode
At home in a meadow like twin spotted fawns
Asleep in a thicket, so sheltered and warm
That was three lives ago, that was three lives ago

Then you left, then I left, then you wouldn't let go
As you leapt oer a balustrade built far too low
I learned the Viennese Waltz in mid-air
The two step with no legs to keep us a pair
That was two lives ago, that was two lives ago

The world's getting smaller by the day
As the cartographer draws farther she draws you farther and farther and farther and farther away
Farther away, farther away, farther away

Fall back on bravado- retuned and restrung
Defrost and reheat and refrost when you're done
I lived with a cat and she slept at my feet
I cried at my Baldwin, relearned how to eat
That was one life ago, that was one life ago

Now I'm perilously meritless- I cut it quite close
I'm a forgery of sorcery, a truant, a ghost
I laugh the loudest when I burn my throat
I kissed you I missed you I hated you most
This is where I live now, this is where I live now
This is where I live now, this is where I live now

The world's getting smaller by the day
As the cartographer draws farther she draws you farther and farther and farther and farther away
Farther away, farther away, farther away