The Background

by Third Eye Blind

Everything is quiet

Since you're not around

And I live in the numbness now

In the background

I do the things we did before

I walk Haight Street to the store

And they say where's that crazy girl

You don't get drunk on red wine

And light no more

'Cause I don't see you anymore

Since the hospital

But the plans I make still have you in them

Then you come swimming into view

And I'm hanging on your words like I always used to do

The words they use so lightly, I only feel for you

I only know this cause I am, Way back down

In the background

Words they come and memories all repeat,

I lift your head while, They change the hospital sheets

I would never lie to you, No

I would never lie to you, No

I felt you long after we were through

And the plans I make still have you in them

Cause you come swimming into view

And I'm hanging on your words like I always used to do

The words they use so lightly, I only feel for you

I only know this cause I am, Way back down

In the background

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