Another Life

Put inside the picture frame
Some tables and a coffee pot
A uniform, a girl of twenty-three
Sitting at a table
Put a man of thirty-seven
As exotic as that girl would ever see
Have her standing over him
And laughing as he's asking her a question
No one thought to ask before
Color him with mistery
And color her with danger
And expose them just enough to wish for more

And there was something there between us
Something I could never name
Something stronger
Something stranger
More than quick sand
More than flame
Another life

Further down the gallery
A picture of a couple
On a honeymoon in Merikesh somewhere
See him with his camera
And his eye and see her grasping
At his hand
Afraid he doesn't know he's there

And there was something deep inside him
Something I could never reach
Like he saw it getting closer
In a window
On a beach
Another life

Another life
But I'd believed I've grown to be
The things he needed most to see
And if our nights just stay this hot
I'd break him down
He'd open up
Well obviously not

Back there in the shadow find a picture of a woman
Wearing four years of confusion like a scarf
Walking through the door and leaving nothing but a note
That says, "I'm sorry Robert"
Taped to her guitar
And there's so much I still wonder
Did he need me?
Did he know?
Love is open
Love is easy
That was someone long ago
Another life
Another life