How To Be Alone

I'm not questioning the way I move

I left here for Wisconsin on a Sunday

With practiced inability

Together what comes close to me

I always choose to leave

Dreaming but indifferent at best

I laid down in the kitchen

With the pain across my chest

Desire to be simplified

The way your stoneholds heat at night

There's nothing left to prove

And this is how I learn to be alone

A pendulum that swings

Across so many things

So I will always be first to leave

I'm not questioning the things you do

Go out all night with strangers on a Friday

My practiced insecurity

Put prison walls around you

So I know you had to leave

Proud and independent at your best

You curled up with a novel

And a sweater on your chest

Desire to be rectified

The footend of your bed replies,

"There's space for you to move"

And this is how you learn to be alone

A pendulum that swings

You lost so many things

So you will always be the first to leave

And this is how we learn to be alone

A pendulum that swings

We love so many things

So we will always be the first to leave

We will always be the first to leave