He sees her number on his phone
Message reads “I’m in town just so you’d know”
In flash it all comes back
His heart is racing and his knees go slack
Stirs up some questions to feel this way
To see her now it’d be hard not to stay
The best thing he can do for her now is not call
He found some postcards that she wrote
Stashed in a drawer under some other notes
One from everywhere she’d go
Most romantic words that he had known
A comfort in letters that he had kept
He hadn’t found better ones to replace them yetl
Goodbye my love goodbye my friend
It hurts like hell cause I’ll never see you again
I know I’ll still think about you now and then
She still sits and waits for him
While he's off pursuing some other whims
Although she’s always on his mind
He lives in the future of some other time
He wants his dream in life to come true
While her plans they all fell through
New wounds hurt worst but time heals the past
It's not the first and it’s not the last
And I know it aint easy for either part
Forever reminders that are stuck in your heart
Tom Heyman documents life in San Francisco circa 2023, refusing to succumb to easy characterization & instead capturing the city’s nuance. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 22, 2023