i never bought you flowers
i never bought you candy
i could never afford fancy restaurants
i could never afford fancy gifts
and maybe i could have opened doors
more often or maybe threw my jacket
down onto a puddle so you could walk
over it and treat you like a princess
and maybe that's why you left
because you just wanted me to care
but i don't know how to be the man you want
i was never much of a poet
i get nervous when i talk
especially around you
i sometimes think only of myself
but everything i did
i did for you
and i always gave you
one hundred percent
of me
and love came one day
and announced herself
to the world
and we were happy
and when she left
she left in the middle
of the night
and crept out the back
unnoticed
in the beginning i didn't want to know a thing
but now i've just got to know
are his lips as soft as mine
does he kiss you the way i did
are his hands as soft as mine
does he hold your hand the way i did
did he sweep you off your feet?
did he do it all better than me?
and i'll let go of everything and
tell myself it doesn't matter
and then remind myself that
nothing is fair in love and war
and now that the love is over;
it's time to begin the war