Another Life

Put inside the picture frame some tables and a coffeepot A uniform, a girl of twenty-three Sitting at a table, put a man of thirty-seven As exotic as that girl would ever see Have her standing over him and laughing As he's asking her a question no one thought to ask before Color him with mystery and color her with danger And expose them just enough to wish for more And there was something there between us Something I could never name Something stronger, something stranger More than quicksand, more than flame Another life Further down the gallery, a picture of a couple On a honeymoon in Marrakesh somewhere See him with his camera at his eye And see her graspin' at his hand Afraid he doesn't know she's there And there was something deep inside him Something I could never reach Like he saw it getting closer In a window, on a beach Another life Another life But I believed I'd grow to be The thing he needed most to see And if our nights just stayed this hot I'd break him down He'd open up Well, obviously not Back there in a shadow, find a picture of a woman Wearing four years of confusion like a scar Walking through the door and leavin' nothing but a note That says "I'm sorry, Robert," taped to her guitar And there's so much I still wonder Did he need me? Did he know? Love is open, love is easy That was someone long ago Another life