New Lover

I can’t pretend that all is well, it’s like I’m haunted by a ghost There are times I cannot speak your name for the catching in my throat There are things I will not sing for the sting of sour notes I feel like a miser, I feel low and mean For accusing you of stealing what I offered you for free Still it beggars the belief sometimes what thieves we lovers be I don’t know who you’re with these days, might be with someone new And if you are, I hope he treats you like a lover ought to do But whatever makes you happy, it don’t really matter who I got a new lover now, I hope you got a lover, too Praise the water under bridges, he time they say will heal Praise the fonder that still grows on the absent heart in fields Praise be to this pain these days, it’s all I seem to feel Perhaps the fault was mine, perhaps I just ignored Who you were always gonna be instead of who I took you for I’ve been treated worse, it’s true, still I expected more But I will not chase your shadow as you go from room to room Dropping handkerchiefs and daggers, smoking guns and other clues For what someone did to someone and who did what with who I've got a new lover now, I hope you got a lover, too I got a new lover now, I know that she’s not mine And I only want to hold her, I don’t need to read her mind And she only looks like you when she’s in a certain light I got a new lover now, she knows just what I need When I wake up in the night, she can read me back my dreams And she loves them though she never needs to tell me what they mean I hope you got a lover now, hope you’ve got somebody who Can give you what you need like I couldn’t seem to do But if you’re sad and you are lonesome and you got nobody true I’d be lying if I said that didn’t make me happy, too I’d be lying if I said that didn’t make me happy, too