i think i'm prettier.

i can't sleep anymore.

for once it's not you knocking on my door.

after all those years of back and forth.

today i think my heart fell to the floor...

 

 

i was told today you're getting married.

at first, i faked a grin from ear to ear...

after all, i knew you always wanted to marry.

missed opportunities and wrong roads taken led us here.

 

have you ever heard the song "in another life"?

yeah, it's kinda like that.  i screwed you over, so I paid the price.

 

it's not like it didn't all turn out well for me either, you know.

i met a man, and we're talking about forever.

it's so crazy to think that just a few short years ago, it was us.

we talked about life and love and how we would never

...let it go; like i have to do now because you have her.

 

don't get me wrong, she seems really nice.

i bet she gives you everything i couldn't.

sometimes i wonder if you still believe what we said years ago

but i know your character, and i'm sure you wouldn't.

 

where did our lives go?

somewhere where the passion went;

it never left in distance, but vanished in thin air.

now i stare at the gifts and the letters you sent

wondering why all the pieces just didn't fit.

 

do i still love you?

hell yeah i do.

i treated you so terribly

i just didn't recognize who

...i was. and how i'm different than how i was then.

 

i can't accept the fact after all.

i can tell you cannot love me anymore

by the tone of your voice when I called.

and i know it's so very stupid to harp on something I can't fix.

 

but i will keep close all the times we had

the past was good to you and I, but time has left us.

here's to Mrs. Sturdivant, I hope she's all you ever wanted.

maybe she won't treat you like she's got nothing to lose.

...cuz i promise she'll regret it.

 

i won't bother you again dear; i'm gonna let you live your life.

just know you'll always have a friend to call

when you get away from that wife

 

and dear please always know,

i'm prettier.

(and i always will be)