YOUR NAME BACKWARDS Lyrics

Your the only one who knows

It's the ending of the show

Tell me how, how do I go

When I could bathe in the afterglow

Said can I walk you home

I'd gladly give up the throne

When the crown means your alone

Being king ain't all that fun

Just for a moment I'm in utter dismay

If I can spell her name backwards

Then she'll stay

Four letters so I only need two

Let you know it was different with you

Going forward all the same

Succumb to vice, pushdown the pain

Kept my mouth shut, baby I tried

Fell into cheating, meetings, lies

Still I always thought you knew

It was different when it came to you

The lights are burning low

Her eyes from the third row

The subtle way she shows

She's above it all

I hardly ever know

The way she comes and goes

But every time she does

I feel lucky for awhile

Just for a moment I'm in utter dismay

If I can spell her name backwards

Then she'll stay

Four letters so I only need two

Let you know it was different with you

Going forward all the same

Succumb to vice, pushdown the pain

Kept my mouth shut, baby I tried

Fell into cheating, meetings, lies

Still I always thought you knew

It was different when it came to you

Never looked at us like a movie, I'm a cherry picker check these memories

And you're the greatest hits, you just don't miss

I see your face in a montage, a smile at the beach, and quiet parks

You're the first to leave each time we part, but my face hurts so I'll get lost

Each November 5th you turned, that spoon hit tiramisu

If I ask can you cover me in coffee, cause I'm waking up for you

Can't count on the Counting Crows, no accident about you

I had a chance I missed it, blink blink one-eighty-two

Did you stay up, did you call out

Did it hurt bad, a fucking blow out

Think about all the ways I couldn't reach you

Walk around these streets I couldn't keep you

Call me up in the middle of the night

I'd still spell, your name backwards

You're a friend can't tell you that I miss you

Held your hand but never did I kiss you

Come to me in the darkest dreams

I'd still spell, your name backwards

(You'll never see what you mean to me, you'll never know what I could not show)