I loved you but it feels like 1000 years ago

I loved you but it feels like a thousand years ago
love in the past tense is sickening
but it’s all I’ve ever known
‘one hundred years of solitude’ is still my favourite book
but I can say that from your lot
that’s all I ever took
one day you told me to forget…

and I watched myself go
to never return
at first I wanted to know
the reasons of our fall
but then I watched you go
and felt nothing at all
but I still remember the road…

I loved you but it feels like a thousand years ago
love in the past tense is weakening
it keeps digging its own hole
‘one hundred years of solitude’
showed to the world before
you cannot die when you want
die when you can, if at all
you never asked me to forgive…

and I watched myself go
to never return
at first I wanted to know
the reasons of our fall
but then I watched you go
and felt nothing at all
but oh I remember the road…

I loved you but it feels like a thousand years ago
but if it ever hardly hurt
was it really love at all?
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previous titles: grey eyed day (the reasons of fall)
references: cien anos de soledad (gabriel garcia marquez), once (liam gallagher), everyday I think of money (stereophonics)

am colin-clegg: vocals, guitars, bass, drums, keyboards