13

Ben gets on a train
Thursday after dark
His ex was cool
But then they lost the spark
He dated a girl
Called Lea in the fall
But it didn't work out
And he moved on after all

And his friend Jonas
Knows her well
He calls her a good friend
So they still hang around
Ben lives with Jonas now
All these girls
Have left their mark
Unveiled his broken heart
But he makes sure no one sees
No one except for

Hey if the water doesn't fall
You can't force the rain to come
You can try to dance along
Around the bonfire all night long
There's no magic that's enough
When it comes down to love
Sometimes you gotta wait
Thirteen years to find your fate

Ben is a drummer
And it roughed up both his hands
He's done it all his life
And his band has got big plans
They wanna move to America
Land of the Great
Land of the underdog
He did not have time for her
And she did not get it
She did not love his art

And this whole world has left its mark
Made him cold and hard
But he makes sure no one sees
No one except for

Hey if the water doesn't fall
You can't force the rain to come
You can try to dance along
Around the bonfire all night long
There's no magic that's enough
When it comes down to love
Sometimes you gotta wait
Thirteen years to find your fate

Some time later
Lea made a friend who gets her
Ben had a girl and wonders
If he loved her
And all this doubt
Has left it's mark
Ben thought he'd never find
A soulmate in this life
Who makes him feel alive
Lea introduced her friend to him
And he fell in love again
Long story short
You see
Turns out that friend was me

But when the water wouldn't fall
I didn't force the rain to come
I didn't try to dance along
Around your bonfire all night long
There's no magic that's enough
When it comes down to trust
I am not the girl who waits
For a boy to seal her fate
(And now you're too late)

Your constant need for saying how you can't feel
I think this sounds like a goddamn scheme
Nice try but I am not naiv
I can see through your bullshit
You and your narcissistic ways
And your comments about how your love was fake
Say you never used me
But did you let it be?
No, you're just too messed up to really want me

I hope your band is doing well
You won't ever get to see me again
You can buy a ticket to my show
Listen to my songs on the radio
But that moment on the thirteenth
Honey, when you let me know
That is when let you go

And when it ended I did cry
I cried the whole of the night
I never got to say goodbye
You broke my heart in the blink of an eye
Thirteen years won't fix the pain
That you left behind in vein
I was shattered by the weight
Of what you made our fate
And now you're too late