Still This Side of Gone
Fooling Myself in Love's Shadows
Lyrics
If I don't move an inch if I don't make a sound
If I remain motionless and silent
Maybe you'll forget and decide to stick around
Hoping that you might forget and choose to stay
Even though I know it's hopeless at best
Despite the awareness of the futility at its peak
I'm gonna fool myself
Choosing to deceive myself
While you're still this side of gone
While you are still present, not yet departed
While you're still this side of gone
During the time you're not completely gone
When did you decide I wasn't good enough
Questioning the moment you decided I wasn't worthy
I wish I had known instead of getting my hopes up
Regretting not knowing earlier, before raising my expectations
They're hanging by a thread heavy in the air
My hopes are precarious, hanging by a thin thread in the atmosphere
But let them linger there
Yet allowing them to persist
While you're still this side of gone
While you are still present, not yet departed
While you're still this side of gone
During the time you're not completely gone
Stay a little longer
Pleading for you to stay a bit longer
Till I'm a little stronger
Until I gather a bit more strength
And I can face the love-shaped hole you'll leave
So I can confront the void your departing love will create
Nothing I can say nothing I can do
Feeling powerless, unable to influence or change
I'm down on my knees calling on St. Jude
Resorting to prayer, invoking St. Jude
Maybe he will hear this broken-hearted prayer I pray
Hoping that this desperate prayer reaches him
And send a miracle my way
And results in a miraculous intervention
While you're still this side of gone
While you are still present, not yet departed
While you're still this side of gone
During the time you're not completely gone
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