A Letter to Elise

Oh, Elise, it doesn't matter what you say
 Just can't stay here every yesterday
 Like keep on acting out the same, the way we act out
 Every wait is smile, forget
 And make believe we never need it anymore than this
 Anymore than this
 Oh, Elise, it doesn't matter what you do
 No, I'll never really get inside of you
 To make your eyes catch fire the way they should
 The way their blue could pull me in
 If they only would, if they only would
 At least I'd lose this sense of sensing something else that hides away
 For me and you, they're worlds apart
 With taking looks and breaking hearts
 And all the prayers your hands could make
 Why just take as much as you can throw
 No, I throw it all away
 Oh, I throw it all away
 Like throwing faces at the sky, like throwing it all down
 Yesterday I couldn't stand my eyes in front of you
 And the face I saw looked like the way I want it to
 But I just can't hold my tears away the way you do
 Elise believe I never wanted to
 I thought this time I'd keep all of my promises
 I thought you were the girl I always dreamed about
 But I let the dream go, and the promises broke
 And the make believe ran out
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 So Elise, it doesn't matter what you say
 Just can't stay here every yesterday
 Like keep on acting out the same the way we act out
 Every wait is smile, forget
 And make believe, we never need it anymore than this
 Anymore than this
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 Every time I tried to pick you up like falling sand
 I start as I pick it up, it runs away through my clutching hands
 There's nothing else I can really do, there's nothing else I can really do
 There's nothing else I can really do at all