Aches and Pains Lyrics

Had you looked over my way

For an hour later maybe we'd remain

If we stopped to hold our hands

Things would cease to be about our future plans

You turned 23 that fall

Back then I was 19, if at all

We found something in between

Repression and a romantic comedy

Felt I knew you those TV fiction bursts

That I put on down in coffee shops

Which undoubtedly made it worse

Scenes have ended now

The reflection on the screen

Left standing is only me

Sounds like aches and pains

Are just a staircase walk away

Behind your bedroom door that opens weird

Where you begged me just to stay

And I always seemed to stay

Despite the nothing that you gave

And the more I think I grow contrite

As the feelings I discarded become right

Wish you told me you were scared

Coming out would leave you beyond repair

Wish we'd talked the hurt

That being yourself was just too much to exert

Then maybe you would've showed me to your friends

And we'd go on trips in Burlington

Maybe stay for the weekend

Showed emotion, maybe all would be okay

Why do I feel I failed to make you stay?

Stings when I have said

Every sign was left unread

'Til behind your bedroom door, locked tight

Thinking you'd left me for dead

And I wrote you off as blind

Wrapped in a ball, laying supine

Drips darkened a blotted night

And I wish that you had been a light

I can't look the other way

Resort to aches and pains

Roles I'll never come to take

Roles I'd never come to take

So much more I cannot be

So much more you took from me