Early March is always hard. Winter clings, but whispers Spring… so tempting.
& Memories of the world in bloom, as distant as that wistful moon… and as empty.
A rented room, an old guitar, & memories of you are my belongings.
With the bitter muse of fallen stars, I sing my broken heart to keep from calling.
But words won’t matter anyway,
All the rules have changed, so what’s the point in tryin’ to say...

Time no longer flies along. It crawls and claws, still holding on to history.
& gravity is twice as strong, but every other power is a mystery.
So I’m thrust out on my own again, to muster up some trust in darkened hours.
With a busted heart and gusty pen, kneeling in the dust of fallen towers.
And there’s nothing more that I can say
Can’t make sense of things, ever since you went away.

All the rules have changed... A world without a chart, the stars have all been rearranged.
All the roads I chose are gone... The path without you, it ain’t on the map that I’m traveling on.
All my senses reel... It’s you I wanna hear, I wanna taste, I wanna feel.
So it seems that all the world is strange...
Without you, all the rules have changed.

See there’s nothing more that I can say...
Every minute, ever since you went away
I miss your wizened fingers on the tattoo on my chest,
I miss the constellations made of freckles on your breast,
I miss the sweet caresses and lord I never could have guessed,
how much I’d miss your friendship daily and the nightly tenderness.
So I pray that you’ll forgive me though I’m not sure I deserve it,
Because I can’t forgive myself, because I don’t know that I’ve earned it.
If my lesson is to lose you then I might refuse to learn it.
My heart is yours and you can choose to use it or return it.
Because there’s nothing more that I can say...
Can’t make sense of things ever since you went away.

All the rules have changed... A world without a chart, the stars have all been rearranged.
All the roads I chose are gone... The path without you, it ain’t on the map that I’m traveling on.
All my senses reel... It’s you I wanna hear, I wanna taste, I wanna feel.
So it seems that all the world is strange...
Without you, all the rules have changed.

Someday maybe, God knows where,
when time has brought us more to share from living.
We could rise in love again, from wisdom compassion & forgiving.