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