perpetually nostalgic

Five hours ago, your birthday ended
All I thought about was the scent of your hair
I know it's stupid

darkness ushers in nostalgia

Ducks floating on the water
picnics with her dead daughter
She thinks its stupid
so she tells no one

It seems so anticlimactic
from way over here
Something so careless
can't be this pedantic

pay phone ahead, I need a dime
I'm just calling to say we're out of time
I know this is stupid
I'll call you back in 30 years

It's been months, where'd you go
never mind, I already know
Longing can be so ironic
You and I, platonic
I can be so stupid

Drinking with an old war friend
He's talking about 1993
I remind him it's 2003
right about now, he'd ask is that when they buried me
I think he's stupid for leaving us all behind

She says I would have liked him
He was weird
He crossed the line into crazy
It's stupid how he disappeared

light exposes nostalgia for what it is

It's been five hours since your birthday ended
all I can think of is the scent of your hair
I know it's stupid

right about now, you'd say stop being so melodramatic
and I'd say but longing is so romantic

everyone is perpetually nostalgic