Things

In this song, I was trying to capture that hazy and half-awake state you find yourself in after dreaming about a past girlfriend - a relationship that should have worked out but didn't, etc....
After the first version, I wanted to lighten it up a little and make it less "suicide-y", so I included the someday I'll see part to the chorus.

THINGS


i have the worst dreams
i dream the worst things
a wave of your hand
the turn of your head from a distance

i save the least things
the things-i-need-least-things
the song of your sigh
the dance of your breath in December

they wander and drift through the door
intruders i cannot ignore

then i hear the worst things
your voice in the morning
calling to me
invitations to sleep a little longer

the answers i never could get
the stain that has not lifted yet

but that’s just me
someday i’ll see
the world wakes up
and moves on

i lose the worst things
colors and shadings
the purpose and drive
to fill in a new frame come tomorrow

i want the worst things
bad worse and worst things
filling my head with the false-alarm red of a sunset

they wander and drift out the door
deserters i cannot ignore

but that’s just me
someday i’ll see
the world wakes up
and moves on. (c)2002 DAVE DONOVAN