Forgot Myself - Jen Cloher

You’d been gone so long you could have been dead

Piles of books you bought but never read

Paint a still life of your side of the bed

Patti Smith poems, a hair tie, and some vitamins

There’s only so much you can say in a text

Reading between the lines is hazardous

A slow reply can really mess with your head

I was feelin' kinda free

Now I’m desperate

Oh god I forgot myself

Oh god I forgot my health

I seen it coming but it’s too late now

Oh god, oh god, I forgot myself

I was shooting for a different score

My head, my heart, the way, the open door

Like a fly up against the window

The open sky, so close, I’ll never know

See my reflection staring back in the glass

I’m getting older

I know, that things don’t last

For all the time I spend worrying

Most things they never happen

Oh god I forgot myself

Oh god I forgot my health

I seen it coming but it’s too late now

Oh god, oh god, I forgot myself

You’re riding round the world

You’re doing this and you’re signing that

The facts are that you’re there and I’m here

When you’re gone too long I become an idea

I’m driving in my car

Your song comes on the radio

And I remember what I always forget

Loneliness