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 i know i'll never see you

 i know i'll never run into your body

 walking through the crooked steets

 i know i'll never hear you

 i know i'll never hear you like a sound

 that wafts inside from outside there

 i know that if i waited

 i know that if i wait a thousand days

 will lie wasted with thought of you

my love i've pictured this your violet eyelids

opened to say "here's where you've been"

your lips open to say "my darling it's been

so very long and i'm in pain"

 i know i'll never feel you

 i know i'll never get so close to you

 that i can't smell anything else

 i know that it is raining

 and i know that the rain will soak you through

 and leave you like a tattered sky

 I know I go in circles

 I know that window panes bring only rain

 and not your face

my love i've pictured this your violet eyelids

opened to say "here's where you've been"

sometimes i picture all your fingers

sometimes they're crawling down my spine

sometimes they're buttoning your jacket

sometimes you're far but you're still mine

sometimes i picture all your fingers

sometimes they're crawling down my spine

sometimes they're buttoning your jacket

sometimes you're far but you're still mine

 i know i go in circles

(chords fade ................. tacit now to end of song)

 i know that window panes bring only rain

 and not your face