just a few more hours until we start again we drink to forget what we took to the chin a year seems like a lifetime until another passes by i ended up where i began but i swear to god i tried i was in my head though i was looking in your eyes every lie that id been told i cycled through my mind i always felt alone even in good company never stopped to notice you were standing next to me you ve been gone so long but i can still feel you there occupying space with your absence everywhere i blamed you as if it were something that you took you may have lit the match but i gave you the book