Train Stations & Playstations

I put my all into this one special person

But in the end it added up to too much hurting

Cursing on the phone and threats that I’d desert him

Our theatrical performance was no longer working

So in the end I just had to close the curtains

I’m certain things could’ve gone a better way

But if they did who’s to say that he’d have never strayed?

Anyway, I’m trying to find the ground from which I’ll levitate

But pressure weighs my mind and I’m back to square one

Going 'round in circles, I'm asking ‘where's the care gone?’

I swear one thing I know is – you can only rely on yourself when you’re hopeless

I know this now but now it's too late

If I knew this then I wouldn’t have made those mistakes

But take the good with the bad

And if the bad overtakes then remember what you had

'cause you, were a part of me

And a part of you's still with me but it's scarring me

And a part of me sometimes asks – can’t we be?

But you apart from me

It's true – I’d rather be

'cause you, were a part of me

And a part of you's still with me but it's scarring me

And a part of me sometimes asks – can’t we be?

But you apart from me

It's true – I’d rather be

Your eyes and mine – that was what love was

But somewhere down the line all the good got cut off

Now hearing you rhyme has got me thinking what could’ve been

And how you should’ve seen that you were crushing me

But in the process you thought that you were loving me

I would’ve been there for you – you only had to ask

But now you’re sad 'cause all we had collapsed

And now you made the crack a major gap

Going crazy mad stating that you want your baby back

I’m just a part of the puzzle in your hazy past

And yeah you made me laugh and times were so beautiful for a while

I’d wait a whole damn month to see that one station smile

'cause you, were a part of me

And a part of you's still with me but it's scarring me

And a part of me sometimes asks – can’t we be?

But you apart from me

It's true – I’d rather be

'cause you, were a part of me

And a part of you's still with me but it's scarring me

And a part of me sometimes asks – can’t we be?

But you apart from me

It's true – I’d rather be

So now I’m here and it's been two years but I’m

Still unclear – please break it down

It's been so long – I can’t hate you now

Hating how I’m back at the same song - the pain ain’t gone

Asking mary-jane to make me strong

And there’s tainted songs that I can’t even listen to

Train stations, Playstations hold a bit of you

And it's crazy – I swear I wasn’t missing you

Till you came back to remind me what kissing you felt like

And it felt nice

I should’ve stopped you first – 'cause when I got with him you got with her

It's crazy – I feel lost on earth but when I’ve got your words I’m meant to be

It's stupidity – he’s twice the man you’ll ever be

Two times nicer and I know he’d never threaten me

Never put me secondly – never ever stressing me the way you did

What made you flip? What made you the way you are?

What made you make me like this?

I’ve hid from love like it's a virus

And now I’m always high look, just like we used to be

Just another reminder of us – of you and me

'cause you, were a part of me

And a part of you's still with me but it's scarring me

And a part of me sometimes asks – can’t we be?

But you apart from me

It's true – I’d rather be

'cause you, were a part of me

And a part of you's still with me but it's scarring me

And a part of me sometimes asks – can’t we be?

But you apart from me

It's true – I’d rather be

(You are, the most literary jazz face I know. I don't know anybody who is deeper into the literature.)

(Well it's because I, you know I came from a very straight laced family.

My father was a minister, and he was the uh, uh the cultural and the moral foundation of our entire neighborhood ya know and so we had to,

had to uh uh exemplify all the things for which he stood so I had a very, a very straight life, never engaged in any gambling,

we never used any profane language, anywhere near the house,

there was no alcohol in the house, no smoking,

we had to, when we got up in the morning we had to pray, before we went to sleep at night we prayed.

That's the way I grew up so then when I started singing jazz and I had to consort (*laughs*) with these musicians you know,

I had to maintain two vocabularies like I couldn't come to the gig and say um 'my wife and I went to a cinema today.

' I would say uh, 'me and my bed-buddy took in a flick' you know (*laughs*)

so I had to maintain these two vocabularies starting very early so it gave me a much more broad s-spectrum of life.)