Just Like Old Days

Do you remember what we went through,
The tears we cried?
The bittersweet memories that'd play in our heads as we dreamt slowly of eachothers arms?
I had whole conversations repeating in my mind from the day I had learned,
No matter what happened you'd never be mine.

Do you remember the pain?
As we fought back the flood yearning to erupt from our tired eyes.
Each day we were on auto-pilot, not truly aware,
And no one could see the pain,
Hidden behind our empty, smiling faces.

Now as I see someone go through the same thing,
I revisit that pain and it hurts in the same way.
I wrap my arms around myself as I did back then,
Trying to hold myself together like only once before,
As your face haunted my mind.

Do you remember those nights?
Of tossing and turning and wishing and praying,
And I felt so betrayed and I felt so alone.
Where each dream I had made me wake with a scream,
Then I'd start sobbing because you couldn't comfort me.

I look at this girl falling to pieces in front of me.
I see myself so long ago as I recieved the news you had left.
I guess that's how I must have looked,
Dead to everything but the memories,
The only thing that could keep me sane.

Back then you were all I wanted and I was so in love,
But I never could understand why if you had meant what you said,
You would leave me so quickly then move on so fast,
And I had nothing to do,
But try and laugh it all off.

Do you remember how I shattered when I heard the news,
Then I left my sanity at the door of my mind.
I couldn't breathe as I pictured you walking away without a backward glance.
And as I look at this girl I take pity cuz that was me.
Then I start to cry, just like old days.