Pet Names Lyrics

In the pages of books that I lent you

I'm finding the love notes you made

Little fossils to read, yeah they're awfully sweet

But they're painfully far out of date

And whenever I'm heading downtown

I always tend to zone out

My autopilot takes over

And before I know it, I'm back at your house

I was under the impression that you wouldn't stay

You're not on my mind much

But you're underneath it in so many ways

I kept accidentally

Referring to you as my girlfriend

For a while after I had to go

Only took me a week to unlearn it

After eight months of calling you so

I had to retire your pet names

They're filed away on a shelf

As much as I'd want to reuse them

They'll never mean anyone else

I was under the impression that you wouldn't stay

You're not on my mind much

But you're underneath it in so many ways