Only Me


from the ABC set What Jennifer Wrote Next (pre-2004)

Only Me

Your face haunts me as I sleep
Here alone in this wide bed
The sheets are cold and I'm unslept
Unrested, incomplete.

But whose responsibility am I now there's only me?
You take care of someone else -
Does she love you and no-one else?
Does she love you completely?
And when you share her bed at night
Does she lie awake and
Does she cry herself to sleep?
Does she stretch out her arms to find
Only bare cold sheets?
Does she kiss herself goodnight
On her shoulders, left and right
And wrap her arms around her back
To hold herself?
'Cos I do that yes I do that oh I do that
Now there's only me.

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