* And when it comes in my fingers I
n'mens not
I swear it's about you
Maybe a bit much sometimes
But we must not * why do worry
n'mens not
I swear it's about you
Maybe a bit much sometimes
But we must not * why do worry
was the first Once he took his guitar. I'd never seen him play before. Sitting there on the couch watching the night through the window, I heard him start to reel off the notes next to me. Everything was calm, all was well. I shook my full cup of tea a little stronger in my hands and I put my head on the top of his shoulder. I was cold, I wanted to stick me against him, but he had his guitar against his body. So I contented myself with it, the touch of his collarbone against my temple.
"Play me a tune," I said, "play me a tune" and were the first words we spoke for a long time. Words that broke not silence but an extension.
Then he started singing and I closed my eyes. Her voice was a little hoarse, a little forced. And notes flowed over the strings and echoed over our heads.
But I kept my eyes closed.
When at last I looked, there was another woman in his hands between his words, between the forms of his guitar.
A ghost in his words.
A silhouette in her pupils.
Another body under our bed.
He sang for another, and that's how I understood.
I started to cry.
"It's beautiful," I told him, "" How beautiful " and hoped his words back to me.
But the notes were flying over our heads and night came slowly through the window. His voice was choked
.
And I was gone.
I was already a stranger.
And my tea was cold.
We have not had sex that night.
I left the next day, without a word.
Everything was finished on a song that was not written for me.