Canopies and Drapes

All I know:

I want to see you tonight

What's the point?

All we do is fight

I've loved you so long

I don't know who I'd be without

My head hurts

I wish I'd never woke up

I feel worse

Than when S Club 7 broke up

I hate the day, it hates me

So does everybody else

I sit here drooling on my own again

Another routine episode of Friends

What does it mean to be American?

Is it feelings, coffee, and

'I'll be there for you'?

Later on, me and a bottle will hook up to have some fun

Then I'll call your house at 12 to let you know that I'm drunk

Say 'I'm sorry Mr. C, I was just looking for your son'

'How is he, incidentally, do you know if he's out alone?'

'There is this book he lent to me something like seven months ago'

'I'm gonna burn it in the street, be so kind as to let him know

That I'm dealing with this badly, and

Could he please get back to me?'

Since you've gone my only friends are Billy Bragg and The Jam

Though my time with you has got me feeling oh-so k.d. lang

I think you're right about the New Kids on the Block

And I agree now, Billy Joel does not rock

Wish I could show you all the things that Woody Allen helps me see

How Annie Hall is starting to seem quite a lot like you and me

Took a while to come around to David Bowie's new CD

And it's much too late to give back your Magnetic Fields EP

Can I keep it by my pillow?

Really loved it

How I long to tell you so

When I get to sleep I'll dream again of canopies and drapes

And wake shaking in the knowledge

That the mattress holds your shape

I'll assume my phone is dead because it hasn't run for months

If tomorrow is the funeral, do you think that you could come?

I could give you back your music and your t-shirts and your socks

Run to Jazz's house in Soho, cry into her letterbox

Take some time out to resuscitate my soul

Take up smoking and drink carrot juice and grow

Teach the mattress to erase you from its folds

Then dry my eyes and keep on moving

'Til the motion makes me strong

'Til one day I realize I don't remember that you're gone

We'll be strangers who were lovers

I'll recover

It's so weird how time goes on