Another Life

Put inside the picture frame

Some tables and a coffee pot

A uniform, a girl of twenty-three

Sitting at a table

Put a man of thirty-seven

As exotic as that girl would ever see

Have her standing over him

And laughing as he's asking her a question

No one thought to ask before

Color him with mistery

And color her with danger

And expose them just enough to wish for more

And there was something there between us

Something I could never name

Something stronger

Something stranger

More than quick sand

More than flame

Another life

Further down the gallery

A picture of a couple

On a honeymoon in Merikesh somewhere

See him with his camera

And his eye and see her grasping

At his hand

Afraid he doesn't know he's there

And there was something deep inside him

Something I could never reach

Like he saw it getting closer

In a window

On a beach

Another life

Another life

But I'd believed I've grown to be

The things he needed most to see

And if our nights just stay this hot

I'd break him down

He'd open up

Well obviously not

Back there in the shadow find a picture of a woman

Wearing four years of confusion like a scarf

Walking through the door and leaving nothing but a note

That says, "I'm sorry Robert"

Taped to her guitar

And there's so much I still wonder

Did he need me?

Did he know?

Love is open

Love is easy

That was someone long ago

Another life

Another life