Underestimate Me

I felt you leaving

in November

after I drove up to see you

I read between your thinning lines of texts

and busy weekends

I knew the truth but I asked you to give it to me straight

but you underestimated me

I know that boy

is so pretty

with his New York sensibilities

I know you float

on a tide of lusting users

so you don’t see how I could feed you like all of those youthful things

but you underestimated me

‘cause I would provide for you

(maybe not in the fiscal sense)

but I would provide for you

(uh, baby no more than just two kids)

I mean… I’d make a space for you to be 

the wonder you are to me

the wonder you are for me

the rare thing you are to see

the best person you can be

Now that you’ve blazed me

once again 

I won’t be running back to Washington

I won’t be hoping that you’ll understand

I won’t be begging you to choose…

My throat is tight, my heart is loose.

So I’ll just remember how you made me forget the world all around me

while the world still reminds me of you.