Artifacts

I skipped calling on your birthday this year
In case you're still there keeping score
Guess you planned a lot of funerals lately
You probably figured, what's one more

Honey, you're gonna wanna take your time
Reconsider any promises you wanna make
Only thing for sure is it's gonna take time
But that's not all it's gonna take

My life is littered with your artifacts
Memories shimmering and slow
But if all our joy is already past
Then I can take my memories and go

But you cannot hate what I became
Without hating things that already were
So was it a seed, or was it a worm
That you discovered at the apple's core

And maybe your heart knows shame
Maybe you figure you can't come back
You would know that better than me
But if you do, you better come correct

And I sort of wish that I could speed it up
To when I'm ready to forgive
But it ain't the time that I wish it was
No, it's the time that it is