Night Thoughts

Night Thoughts

by Jack Palacios

Lyrics:

Half awake near the dawn, too late to start something better, too early to move on.

She’s been gone for about an hour now, but it feels like twenty years.

Alone in a house never colder, with feelings too pushed down to feel.

You think about the flowers that you’d like to send her one day.

She was the one, but you stood there silent, ’cause you “didn’t know what to say.”

No, you didn’t know what to say. No, you didn’t know what to say.

But you’ll never learn, you’ll never try, you’ll never break, you’ll never buy.

You’ll be alone all the same. You’ll overthink, be at the brink because of a mistake you made ten years to the day.

You think, “If I didn’t worry so much, maybe we’d still be in touch,” as you scroll through photos Filled with empty smiles.

It’s just in your head, go back to bed.

It’s a night thought, and in the end, it’ll pass.

It’s easy to say I wouldn’t make that mistake again in your head, in your bed then in the moment.

Hindsight’s a gift, but due to ignorance we choose to never change.

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But three a.m. comes. You’re alone with the dark spots and all of the thoughts that you keep in the past.

It couldn’t last, but you tried, denied what you saw and died inside a little as you watched her become something less than someone but instead just a mirror of a man telling her who to be.

And why do we play these games whilst scrubbing blood stains off the remains of relationships people we talk to ’cause we can’t think of a better reason why?

But we’ll never learn, we’ll never try, we’ll never break, we’ll never buy.

We’re all alone. We overthink, are at the brink because of words that we said that can never be changed.

We think, “If we didn’t worry so much, maybe we’d still be in touch,” as you scroll through photos Filled with empty smiles.

It’s just in our heads, go back to bed.

It’s a night thought, and in the end, They pass.

It’s just in my head. It’s just in my head. It’ll pass.