Struggling over losing a friend, these lyrics leapt from the grief one day.  I still love the girl.

Fallen

I wish I knew what I could say
To make you see it’s not that way
That everything I’ve ever said before
Was just a way of trying to be
Someone you would want to see
Someone who just wanted to know you more

But somewhere here along the way
It all got spun into a fray
And now you won’t let me in anymore
And I can’t see just what I’ve done
That made me be the one you shun
That made you turn and show me to the door

And now I’ve fallen
There’s no more use in calling
When everything I say tumbles to the floor
How did I offend you?
I can’t pretend to
Believe we will go on like we’d always gone before

Hours pass and turn to days
The silence roars into a haze
I fight inside for ways to fix the score
I call your name and pray for light
Wondering how to make things right
When “you and I” have been shaken to the core

Can’t you tell me what I’ve done?
How is it I became the one
You realized you couldn’t trust here anymore?
I believed we were the best of friends
And then suddenly the talking ends
And you don’t want to see me any more

Left here, I’ve fallen
I’m broken and I’m crawling
Trying to pick the pieces up off the floor
How can I win you?
I can’t pretend to
Hide from the words I said before you shut the door

That I’d fallen
And with you, my heart was all in
And in you, I could want for nothing more
That you were completely
Brilliance and beauty
And everything in a woman I’d hoped for
That you were completely
Everything to me
The one that I wanted to live all of my life for

But now, I’ve fallen
I’m broken and I’m crawling
Trying to pick the pieces up off the floor
How did I offend you?
I can’t pretend to
Believe we will go on like we’d always done before

© 2011 by Bruce Welton.