I Write Your Name lyrics

I write your name
Everywhere I go
Like a worn out code
Just to let you know

I write your name
On my loneliness
On the closet hook where you hung that dress

Don`t you see
You turn this trust
To wind and dust and it`s choking me

It`s hard to touch the sun
And be the only one, then watch it run away

I never thought a change could terrify this way
I love you twice you know
Once for work, once for play
So I got this pen
It doesn`t hurt me when

I write your name
On TV screens,
On empty plates, on magazines

I write your name
In San Francisco
On bathroom walls and New Wave discos

It`s hard to live in hate
There`s no day and night
There`s no time or date

You were gone like sweat and rain
Through my own two hands,
I write your name in vain

I can`t believe you meant
When you walked out of that door
To put off any chance to be with you once more

The only thing you left behind was terror
You`re like an echo in an empty mirror

I need the proof to show
To let them know, to let them know
I write your name

I write your name
With thick blue ink
On stones I throw just to watch `em sink

I write your name
On a great wood beam
On an ancient ship in a fading dream

I write your name
On every move I make
On the things I fake, on my own mistakes

I write your name
On my naked fright
For the final time, I write your name tonight

I never knew a word
Could take it all away
And I wish I never heard
The words you had to say

But there is nothing left to find of you
I left behind the final clue
But I still have this pen
And every now and then
I write your name
I write your name
I write your name


Copyright Dr. Benway Music, ASCAP (1983
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