Bottled Up Messages

Message in a bottle,
Float me off to sea.
Frozen and forgotten,
Knowing full on agony.
Love notes long discarded,
Stores left untold.
And now here I am.
Bobbing up and down in the harrowing cold.

Left with nothing now
But these persistent thoughts.
Wishing he would remember
All the things she never forgot.

Get up - get up - get up,
Get up, they never let up.
Stay down. Stay down goddamnit.
These ghosts of you will never quit.

Cause it was me
And it was you.
And everything we did
Was everything we could do.
We’d run around for hours
Doing nothing but shine.
And all those hours of nothing,
Merely blended into time.

Be my valentine baby,
Be my luscious letdown.
Be my love and my romance.
Be my one and only
And my very last chance.
Save me a dance darling.
Waltz me away.
Tango till we drop.
Stay here in this music,
Embraced in a fancy Foxtrot.

But you threw away your dancing shoes,
Along with those pictures of me.
And you moved onto someone else,
Who’s everything I could never be.
Happy and romantic,
Knows just what to say.
I wish I knew beforehand,
I’d be so forgotten someday.

So there in this dark water,
Shoved into this space.
The glass is now caving in,
And I’m drowning in this place.

I’m drowning and you’re dancing,
Dancing in the light.
So dance my darling, dance.
As I disappear into this night.

This locked up letter lost,
This message quite the martyr.
And I hope one day they find it,
Rotting away on a foreign shore.
I’ll leave your number on the pages
So they know just who to call.
And you’ll just keep on dancing,
Cause I never meant anything to you at all.