Dear Stranger

Dear Stranger
 If you hear this and think it could be about you
 Please don't stop listening
 I'm homeward bound and if I have found you
 Then it must have been meant to be
 Take each word that is more than silence
 And place it inside parentheses
 You'll know what to do soon enough
 Dear Stranger
 I used to be told by the boy that was in love with me
 That I had the talent to keep him on the phone for 3 hours
 Longer than he planned to be
 It wasn't until I would hang up that
 I would realize that it wasn't talent
 But complete fascination with the sound of our voices
 Intertwining between two states
 And we belief we were closer than we were
 That kept us up all night
 He and I were the kind of bad dreams worth having
 Unforgettable with the kind of desire to find out
 How it would have ended if we hadn't woken up when we did
 I'm not saying I'm still in love with him
 I just don't believe I'd be able to
 stop myself if I found him all over again
 Dear Stranger
 We were pipelines fumbling chances of locked eyes
 Just inches away from all that we could breathe
 And I knew I liked it too much cuz I
 couldn't pull my face out of a smile for two weeks
 I keep seeing you in the faces of boys who look nothing like you
 When I'm riding subways but it'd been worth it every time
 For the eighth of a second roller coaster ride
 My heart gets to go on
 It's like a chance meeting with Disney World
 And I don't even care that the palm trees are bare
 in this time of year in Boston
 Were not in love yet
 But I'm pulling for the fact that it could should might has to happen
 So you'll know my promises are worn on my hands like lifelines
 Permanent
 Pull you up into the sky and made you
 into a constellation that spells taken
 So that every girl that laughed at your jokes would know that
 You laughed at my jokes and
 I don't want the best
 I just need what can pull me out of the worst
 So we can exist as storm clouds on dry summer nights
 Furious
 Dear Stranger
 I've been crossing out the word sorry
 from every dictionary that I could find
 Since the age of ten
 And I'm not gonna stop
 Because I wear my emotions on my sleeve
 Piece me together with patches of the three hour timeouts
 And the three minutes that will lapse before we met
 I'll keep breathing for you
 Even when you don't want me to
 Dear Stranger
 Daylight
 We haven't met yet
 But when we do our smiles will be so close
 We'll believe they're from the same lightsource
 And that's the way I like it