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it's medically impossible
for you to miss me
when i go because despite
an addictive personality
i am nowhere near as toxic
as the drinks you've mixed me

or the cigarettes i stub
out in this darkened ashtray
nowhere near as catchy as
the songs she sings you
and even less permanent
than scars and tattoos

but i'll love you just
as you need to be loved
and i'll push you
till you push me back
into the wings of the stage
i've lived on for far too long
oh come on, come on,
just don't think about it.

if you find yourself
psychosomatic, sleepless
in the nights after i've
left this city,
i'll prescribe a steady
diet of landlocked longing
far away from the water
where we both came from

and i'll be around to remind
you of what once happened,
and she'll be there
smiling with an "i told you so"
and you'll roll with that punch
better than you thought you could
and maybe even throw some punches of your own
but don't worry, baby, till
it comes around...

because i'll love you just
as you need to be loved
and i'll push you
till you push me back
into the wings of the stage
i've lived on for far too long
oh come on, come on,
just don't think about how

i loved you just like
you asked to be loved
and i pushed you till
you pushed me back
into the wings of the stage
where i really belonged
oh come on, come on,
just don't think about it
now that it's gone.