Stranger to Strangness

Time passes in movies and songs,
Leaving us as we sing along.
Everything we once sought is now
Shifted upside down, now seems so trivial.
Like it or not, my life is changing.
Please change with it and know that
Nothing will change between you and I.

Promises are the things I dread,
Don't promise that it will be alright.
Promises always seem to get broken in my life.
They break like my heart on this summer's eve.
They break like that heart you let her hold in her hand.
Promise me that you will make no more promises.
That's the least you could do.

Other than that, you're the hope of my day,
The dawn in my darkness.
Don't leave me here in this dawnless darkening
As you live in your noonday sun.
It's so easy, I know, for you to just
Forget about me but don't because
You are the hope of my day and I like that.