Why I Had to Go - Bishop Allen

It is a narrowing
It is a shrinking

And there's a danger of overthinking

It was everybody getting tired of drinking

Every night

There was a little left to believe in

Which is how I really knew I should be leaving
I should be leaving

Now

I should be leaving

We were clever then
We talked forever then

And the night of our
Invention it would never end
There was a parting

And there was sorrow

It was impossible to picture it tomorrow

It was necessity
And it was instinct

And the pattern underneath
It kept repeating

Kept repeating

Kept repeating

It's just how I really
Knew I should be leaving

I should be leaving

Now

I should be leaving

Oh and it was everything

Oh and it was just a way
To keep from waking up
Hello

Which is why I had to go

Which is why I should be leaving

Which is why I had to go

Am I delibering
Am I delivering

Am I offering the blanket
And you're shivering

Is it a play without the passion
Is it the endless repetition of inaction

Is this a christening

Or there's a crisis

We can get together then
And say how nice it is
Is it torment

That depends
Which is how a really
Knew I should be leaving
I should be leaving

Now

I should be leaving

Oh and it was everything

Oh and it was just a way
To keep from waking up
Hello

Which is why I had to go

Which is why I should be leaving

Which is why I had to go

What do you know