It began when you wrote to me
You said you loved my music and my words
I didn’t think that you were real
Until you sent a picture holding my name on some paper
I sang for you and you posed for me
And you invited me to meet for drinks round yours
Sure
‘Promise me that you’ll keep this quiet’
‘Of course’ I said, ‘I won’t tell anyone, I swear’
I swear
I’d only seen you on TV screens, read about you in magazines
But you’re here with me in these sheets
I never knew that you lived like this
All the drugs and booze numb the pain from the bliss
And I get it
Yea, we’d step out but never walk together
I’d be there walking twenty odd steps behind
The flashing lights would drive me crazy
You said you hate it, but it just comes with this life
We’d creep around at events and shows and you love
You love the fact that no one knows
And we could get caught
You looked so pretty on MTV
When just before you were at home with me doing a line or a few
I want to tell the world of our love
I want to show us to the world but I swore to you that I wouldn’t
I still walk past you on bilboards now
I look at me and think ‘why did you pick me for?’
You’re perfect
Your clean image is so far from the truth and you
Read my poems so I guess we can make that two
Her bed a big surrender flag and we’ll lay together and just fade to black
Forget about your fame, your name and your place in this game