A writer is always looking for the magic. The words that describe exactly what we’re trying to say, and too often, we end up spending so much type obsessing over the syntax or stringing together the sentences as an attempt to be profound that we lose sight of what we’re trying to express at all. Sometimes it’s best to just put it out there, bluntly, without the excessive flourish that so commonly distracts us from our goal – to let you, to let the world, know what we’re trying to say.

And then you hear it – a song on the radio or on iTunes or even on a television show, a song whose lyrics take the jumbled words right out of your heart and string them together in a way you had been trying to for days. It happens unexpectedly, you may have just put in an unlabeled mix CD that you made a few months back, and while the song previously didn’t mean anything to you, at this very moment, it’s perfect. It’s what you’ve been trying to say, but didn’t really know how to. It’s what I’ve been trying to say.

Two weeks away it feels like the world should’ve changed
But I’m home now
And things still look the same
I think I’ll leave it till tomorrow to unpack
Try to forget for one more night
That I’m back in my flat on the road
Where the cars never stop going through the night
To real life where I can’t watch sunset
I don’t have time
I don’t have time

I’ve still got sand in my shoes
And I can’t shake the thought of you
I should get on, forget you
Why, why would I want to
I know we said goodbye
Anything else would’ve been confused but I wanna see you again

Tomorrow’s back to work and down to sanity
should run a bath and then clear up the mess I made before I left here
Try to remind myself that I was happy here
Before I knew that I could get on the plane and fly away
From the road where the cars never stop going through the night
To a life where I can watch the sunset
And take my time,
Take all our time

I’ve still got sand in my shoes
And I can’t shake the thought of you
I should get on, forget you
Why, why would I want to
I know we said goodbye
Anything else would’ve been confused but I wanna see you again

I wanna see you again
Two weeks away, all it takes to change in time around by falling
I walked away and never said that I wanted to see again

I’ve still got sand in my shoes
And I can’t shake the thought of you
I should get on, forget you
Why, why would I want to
I know we said goodbye
Anything else would’ve been confused but I wanna see you again

I wanna see you again
I wanna see you again