By the time you wake

By the time you wake I will be long gone Up in the air Looking over the cotton candy clouds By the time you open your eyes I would have said my last goodbye To all the things I knew And all the things I didn't As I travel through time Turning back the hands of the clock My mind will race through the memories That it can still hold on to Because as painful as it is I am the one who paved the way And I don't ever want to forget The way the couch sinks in and the way the smoke alarm sings The faded dials on the oven, and the way we never knew What temperature our chicken roasted in, but we roasted the chicken anyway The searing heat and playing tennis with you, Through the faces of world champions, at the mercy of our controlling fingers I didn't want to lose to you, and you wouldn't let me win I hated it but I miss my rage And the way you laughed at me I'll miss your crazy impulse, and the way your coat stinks of work How you'll starve because you spent last week's pay, On an accidental wild night out I'll miss your Asian and Nazi jokes, Because you're a bloody racist but really you're not, How you'll get an idea, and leave the country for two weeks, But wait that's what I did, Only I never came back I'll miss how you tower over me Because no on will ever be the same No one will ever christened me, With the birds and the bees talk on my 18th And certainly no one will ever, Say it like you did But I'll remember our talks and the differences we had Our ambitions that never converge But our wildest dreams that did I'll remember the time you cried Because you were the first that did To ever shed a tear, for a simple girl like me You had a little too much to drink But didn't we all? And by the time you wake, All of this would be long gone