Reasons To Do

I was going to buy you a star but I was afraid
someone on another planet, might have
bought you that one already. I was going to
fill out paperwork to make your birthday a
national holiday, but I was afraid that people
would cheapen it with cards and presents
and reasonably priced stainless steel cutlery
from the home shopping channel.

I'm gonna love you.

I was going to wake up and make you eggs
for breakfast, but then I realized that I just don't
know where you live. So I just threw eggs
at every house in your neighborhood. I was
going to shout out prose from a mountain
peak, but every spot was taken. It seems other
people love other people and yet other people
ignore my feeble attempts to impress you.

I'm gonna love you, but not that much.

Play me because I've been played before. You
wasted all my money. Use me because I've
been used before. You never find it funny.

I'm bundled up in all my gear. We wrote this song
when you were here. Now something's missing
so it seems. So I will see you in my dreams.

I won't buy you stuff. I can't love you enough.