MEANT IT AT THE TIME

(Timothy Brickley & David Rheins)

So the future together will not materialize.

Our stumbling solution has been realized.

It wasn't really true, but they were not really lies.

I meant it at the time.

It's everything you wanted

and all you'll never know.

Where are you tomorrow?

How then could I know?

It was short of innocence, not quite a crime.

I meant it at the time.

What do you want?

We’re never in the same place twice,

you're always somewhere different

when you open your eyes.

Still, that untraceable longing and then the slow realize.

I meant it at the time.

I know I should have spoke up sooner,

I'm really bad at this.

I love everything about you,

except, well, when we kiss.

It's not your heart, it’s not your soul,

it’s just these chems that won't combine.

And I tried so many times

and I meant it at the time

when I said I dearly loved you.

(Meant it at the time.)

When you said I do, I can't, I won't.

(Meant it at the time.)

When you said you’d be back sometime

you meant it at the time.

You just got through so divine

but I decline to further whine

because we meant it.

                                                                            Copyright 1997, Timothy Brickley & David Rheins.