Vacationist League: Music

I keep your picture on my hard drive
your messages, too
but the breathless sighs (size)
of your quick replies
bring me no closer to you
So I’m clicking on every link
searching for a smile
I light a candle to my dark side
it’s all I can do
after too many drinks
eating over the sink
and going crazy for you
Now I’m holding on
for my dear life
to anything
that moves.
Let it fall away
when you come home to stay
from Australia to Chicago
I’ll be waiting there
Miss Sydney O'Hare

My whole body starts to tingle
as you come into view
But it quickly goes numb
and I’m struck totally dumb
as your eyes head for your shoes
and are you just too tired
or also uninspired
to squeeze me when we hug
Let it fall away... etc.

All through dinner you keep fumbling with the hand-woven bracelet on you wrist
and all the while I can’t stop thinking about our homecoming kiss
you know, it lacked the passion and bliss the way I’d practiced for it with other girls

Now there’s a lingering question
why did your heart miss the flight
You’d better put down that tissue
‘cause I’m forcing the issue
either make love or fight
I move in for an embrace
you block to defend your space
Let it fall away...

You have always seen right through me
when I’ve stood in your way
but now as you pack your bags
I’m secretly glad
I’ve got nothing to say
for you’re consumed with wanderlust
and I with plain old lust
we could not let it fall away
when you came home to stay
from Australia to Chicago
‘though you were standing there
and I was standing there
Ms. Sydney O'Hare

Maybe we can let it fall away
when you leave home today
to Australia from Chicago
I’ll be waving there
Ms. Sydney, take care.