Pick Up the Phone

It's been days since we've spoken
 Last time on the telephone
 I heard your stuttering voice
 Your heavy breath and
 I choked up on the words
 The message that you left behind
 I was the first to break the silence on the line
 White noise and crackle
 I feel it breaking me up inside
 This emptiness is so heavy
 Don't think my bones can survive
 With the weight
 Pulling me down
 Who knew a single sentence could be so profound?
 Would it be better like that
 If you'd just left fast
 And not given me the chance
 To turn my thoughts over in my head?
 But how was I to know
 That that's how it would it go?
 Just in the future
 Remind me not to pick up the phone
 Remind me not to pick up the phone
 Remind me not to pick up the phone
 Remind me not to pick up the phone
 Just in the future
 Remind me not to pick up the phone
 Accepted this ending
 I didn't even put up a fight
 Resisted arguing
 Keep asking myself what might have occurred
 Had I just asked why?
 Instead I'll keep wondering
 Looking for something
 To ease this pain a ring in my ears
 Tinnitus - all that I hear
 Questioning reality
 Is what I'm hearing just inside of me?
 No comfort in your voice anymore
 Reminding me of times from before
 When things played out so differently
 And now you've left me feeling incomplete
 Would it be better like that
 If you'd just left fast
 And not given me the chance
 To turn my thoughts over in my head?
 But how was I to know
 That that's how it would it go?
 Just in the future
 Remind me not to pick up the phone
 Remind me not to pick up the phone
 Remind me not to pick up the phone
 Remind me not to pick up the phone
 Just in the future
 Remind me not to pick up the phone
 Would it be better like that
 If you'd just left fast
 And not given me the chance
 To turn my thoughts over in my head?
 But how was I to know
 That that's how it would it go?
 Just in the future
 Remind me not to pick up the phone