If you want me to stay

I won’t get in your way

I would stay today

If you would only say

I don’t need you to hold my hand

And you don’t have to be my man

Please just help me to understand

What the ocean needs from the sand

I’ve sat and waited a long while,

You won’t hang it up, just redial

Just pass the days in denial

I accept it all with a smile

If you want me to stay

I won’t get in your way

I would stay today

If you would only say

Silence so uncomfortable

Are both our feelings mutual?

It’s exciting to have potential

but friendship is more essential

Than love that becomes ritual

Now you’ve spoken of your wedding

I know she wears the other ring

But tell me just what sort of thing

to your life does she even bring?

How’d she hook you by your heartstring?

If you want me to stay

I won’t get in your way

I would stay today

If you would only say

I thought we shared things in common

I’ll open wide and give you some

With her you sure ain’t getting none

To which you have grown accustomed

I can’t wait for it to go down

Honey, I’m headed outta town

Look for me, I won’t be around

Here now, still you look at the ground

I hold a place however small

My presence is perpetual

Like the paper that adorns your wall

You can’t paint over me at all

Finding me is inevitable

Still you and I both sleep alone

Thus the seeds may never be sown

The truth of love will not be shown

Our tale will always be unknown