well it s five in the morning and the light s already broken and the rainy streets are empty for nobody else has woken yet you turn towards the window as he sleeps beneath the covers and you wonder what he s dreaming in his slumbers there s a clock upon the table and it s burning up the hour and you feel your life is shrinking like the petals of a flower as you creep towards the closet you re so careful not to wake him and you choose the cotton dress you bought last summer there s a time of indecision between the bedroom and the door but the part of you that knows that you can t take it any more there s the promise of the future in the creaking of the floor and you re torn if you should leave him with a numbers and in your imagination you re a thousand miles away because too many of his promises got broken on the way so you write it in a letter all the things you couldn t say and you tell him that you re never coming home she starts running for the railway station praying that her calculation s right and there s a train just waiting there to get her to the city before night a place to sleep a place to stay will get her through another day she ll take a job she ll find a friend she ll make a life that s better the passengers ignore her just a girl with an umbrella and there s nothing they can do for her there s nothing they can tell her there s nothing they could ever say would change the way she feels today she d live the life she d always dreamed if he had only let her now in her imagination she s a million miles away when too many of his promises got broken on the way so she wrote it in a letter all the things she couldn t say and she told him she was never coming home she told him she was never coming home i wake up in an empty bed a road drill hammers in my head i call her name there s no reply it s not like her to let me lie it s time for work it s time to go but something s different i don t know i need a cup of coffee i ll feel better i stumble to the bathroom door her make up bag is on the floor it really is a mess this place it takes some time to shave my face i m not really thinking straight she never lets me sleep this late i m almost done and then i see the letter  in his imagination she s a universe away too many of his promises got broken on the way so she wrote it in a letter all things she couldn t say and she told him she was never coming home she told him she was never coming home i m going to live my life and she told him she was never coming home i m going to live my life in my own way