this one goes out to everyone i ever knew
all my old friends and relatives and ex girlfriends
growing up in school and then later on in my travels
all the people i met in hostels and at my shows
and in bars and wherever it is that people meet each other
sorry i lost track of you all, somewhere along the way
i wasn’t ready for anything more
i became bitter and angry at the world
because nobody understood me
i want to be alone and not feel the hurt of being abandoned
i needed to be in control
now after all these years
a man gets to thinking about
all the things he didn’t even know could be thought
all the things he didn’t know how to say
i just wanted to say
i forgive you
for giving up on me
i look outside at the skeletons of trees dancing in the wind
a blue winter sky looms behind it all like a sea
soon there will be leaves again
and then the leaves will fall
just like one day i will leave all this behind
completing some kind of circle i guess
who the fuck knows