Lyrics
Two weeks later I read the report
Reflecting on a report two weeks later
Recalled that winter afternoon spent sitting on your floor, the stories of your...
Recalling a winter afternoon and the stories shared
The stories of your high school days
Discussing stories from high school days
How your parents removed your door
Detailing how the parents removed the door
Did you ever feel like a guest in your house?
Pondering if the person felt like a guest in their own house
Did anyone ever assuage that doubt? No
Expressing doubt resolution attempts from others
I felt like a thief reading about your life
Feeling like a thief while reading about the person's life
the reporter drew you with a knife
Describing a reporter portraying the person negatively
Void of all sympathy and explanation
Noting the absence of sympathy and explanation
He left no room for retaliation
Highlighting the lack of room for retaliation
I read about the car you stole
Reading about a stolen car linked to the person
I read about your father's funeral
Learning about the person's father's funeral
In his obituary, it said he was survived by you
Noting the obituary stating survival by the person
Sadly that's no longer true
Contrasting the obituary with the current reality
And I'm confronted now with harrowing logic
Confronting harrowing logic and inevitable fate
Shoved down my throat, impossible to dodge it
Being forced to accept an inescapable truth
One day you will read my name in the very same paper
Anticipating one's own name in a future paper
Reduced to my birthplace and college major
Expecting reduced recognition to birthplace and college major
This will be the subject that all of my friends talk about for at least the next few months
Speculating on the focus of friends' conversations
Intermittent like a tragedy, your name shall come up.
Predicting intermittent mentions like a tragedy
(You were notorious, I thought you avoided us, they sent you to Florida)
Recalling the person's notoriety and avoidance
All our memories and dreams are swiftly fading from
Noting the fading of memories and dreams
All of the people
Referring to all the people associated with the person
You associated with, one by one
Highlighting a diminishing list of associations
An ever-shrinking list
Emphasizing the gradual loss of connections
One by one they will be someone I miss
Expressing the inevitability of missing someone
One by one we go into the mist
Describing the gradual disappearance into the unknown
One by one we shall cease to exist
Contemplating the eventual cessation of existence
One by one our memories will be eclipsed
Acknowledging the eclipse of memories
One by one will I be someone you miss?
Pondering the possibility of being missed in return
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