Let's all contemplate so pensively
I can do aloof and solitary
Pretending I like my own company
If you believe that

You made a call almost ten years ago
Maybe it's time that you forgive yourself
Maybe it's best that no one ever know
How much it eats you up

You always talked about what you don't want
And never what the other option was
And quelle surprise you've wound up living low
And always looking back

Before this call I had another name
Before it ends please sing that old refrain
How March arrives just like a speeding train
Without being asked

You had a way of making everybody listen in
You had a satchel with a clasp to put your bible in
I know the past is damaged and perhaps beyond repair
But I will meet you there
I will meet you there

And I would hate for things to culminate
Into a state where we just ruminate
Trading glances at the going rate
Unless you want that

My greatest fear was being risible
So the story grew more mythical
'til I became a hypothetical
If you believe that

Now and then it's nice to criticize
Just to cut somebody down to size
And then a second later realise
All the ways you lack

Credit where credit's due we can't complain
We can chalk it up to growing pains
And March arrives just like a speeding train
Without being asked

You had a way of making everybody listen in
You had a satchel with a clasp to put your bible in
I know the past is damaged and perhaps beyond repair
But I will meet you there
I will meet you there