Favorite Nightmare

Dreamt about you again last night

Tried to brush it off but it came to me like a fright

It’s been a long time since you’ve crossed my mind

Was hoping those old visions of love would go blind

Now I’m back to the way I used to feel

When I know deep down this couldn’t be real

Keeps popping up in my thoughts again and again

Can’t come to terms with it, can’t comprehend

Wish I could understand your Rosetta Stone

So I don’t have to keep going on so alone

But I’ll be left in the dark without your torch

Solo in a rocking chair upon the porch

It’s funny that one moment I want you away

Then I wish I had you forever and together we’d stay

All those times growing up I had hoped for more

Now those crushes I loathed feel more like a bore

It always feels wrong to write what I think

Because who would tie a knot with me in their link

I feel like a boxer who keeps getting knocked down

But I keep getting up to fight one more round

Thought a lot about that magical night

Even if I knew I’d have to face a significant fright

Literally wished upon a shooting star

That I wouldn’t be ditched like a fuelless car

Thought that we could once again meet

And finally have a new memory that wasn’t sour, but sweet

Am I a hapless jester or a hopeless romantic

Must my life go on with my thoughts so pedantic

When I think of what’s broken I think of my own heart

Shattered so thorough I’ll never find every part

When you love something you should let it go

But then I’m left feeling six feet below

If I could blame anything it’d be my stupid feelings

That’s on me for wanting someone so appealing

If I can’t have this connection, could I get some amnesia

So I won’t remember you the next time I see ya