I'd Sing Something Back

Say something unexpected
Say something you've never said before
Tell me a story
You've told me 100 times,
I'd like it just the same.

Whisper a secret across the lake
Light a cigarette
Sit down

Say it loud enough that I can hear it
But not too loud,
No one else needs to know

I'll find a bench
I'll find a chair
I'll find something to sit on
So I don't have to swim across the lake to see you

I'd sing something back
But I've already told you everything I feel like sharing

I think I heard you
I think I heard the secret you tried to whisper
Across the lake

Is it true?
Am I really the first person you've told that to?

I wish you have said it underwater
So I could pretend I heard it
But really I wouldn't have understood
A
Single
Word

I see you light another cigarette
I get up to leave

It's about time you said something
That didn't remind me of a cardboard box
Filled with
Endangered
Flowers

Fly