Favourite Patient

[Verse 1]

When you get home from work

And you change out your shirt

I'll watch the light just play and fall

Right off your skin

In the flickers of the moonlight

I can tell that something's not right

That there's a whole world in there

That you won't let me in

To understand it, how could anyone even begin?

[Verse 2]

So you ask me how my day went

I try to feign some sense of achievement

And I run my mouth till I forget

I haven't asked you a thing

My selfish little mind ran away with itself again

Maybe I'm too scared to ask you

Or it's the insignificance of all that I do

When I spend my time walking around in all I've left unsaid

While you've been working all night and the ward's running out of beds

[Verse 3]

I finally ask you how your day went

You say you lost your favourite patient

While I was working on a masterpiece no one will ever hear

I can't help but think, "What the hell is it that I'm even doing here?"

[Verse 4]

Because your life is in the moment

What is needed, most important

You put yourself to one side and provide

Do what needs to be done

Mine is a world of my own making

Words I've swallowed, time I'm taking

You don't judge or ever question what it is I do it for

But I watch you and I know I could do so much more

[Outro]

I hope I can help in some way

I hope I can help in some way

I hope I can help in some small way

I hope I can help in some way

I hope I can help in some way

I hope I can help in some small way