Obvious

Music and Lyric by David W. Jacobsen
Copyright 2001. All Rights Reserved.

You're pretending not to know what I mean
If I were any more obvious, I'd be obscene

While you were waiting
for that man in your dreams
I didn't have the strength
to tell you what you mean to me
I was just one of your cronies
No, I didn't have the cojones
I didn't have the guts
I feebly said, you look pretty
All I got was scornful pity

It's clear to me that you don't care
If you showed any less interest, you wouldn't be there

While you were crying
cause you felt so alone
I didn't realize
it was cruelty, you are so cold
All that time that I waited
Simply proved I'd been emasculated
I didn't have … the guts
I showed pathetic concern
So afraid that I'd get spurned

I hear the words that you never spoke
What I though was passion, you took as a joke

While you were healing
from a man who broke your heart
There was my moment,
but I let it pass, I was your friend
So nice, so intelligent
So docile and so impotent
I didn't have the guts
Always thinking that enough's enough
But it's too late, I'm already cut

For all you care I could be
a pair of ragged claws in a silent sea