What Happened to Us?

What happened to us?

We became photos
In a lost photo album
We became words
In an ancient language
We became portraits
Hung on the walls
Of a burning house

We became dated
We became downtrodden
We became laughable
We became less

Less trusting
Less important
Less original
Less of ourselves
More like each other

We used to be more
More than just us
More than two people
At a party
Standing next to each other
Wanting to break away
And talk to everyone else there

We became antiques
We became old-fashioned
We became old
We became fashionable
But not in fashion
And our passion died
Along with our ideals
And our ideas
Of what we could be
If we could see anything through

We became gossip and rumors
We became tourists in Times Square
We became actors on a soap opera
We became less that what
We had been before
We were together

What happened to us?

We stopped singing in the shower
We stopped dancing in the kitchen
We stopped making love in the living room
We stopped swimming in the pool at midnight
We stopped kissing
We stopped laughing
We stopped making each other laugh
We stopped trying

We just stopped

And there weren't anymore parties
And there weren't anymore late-nite diner runs
And there weren't anymore vacations
And there weren't people there
Aside from you and me
And being alone
With another person
Is almost worse
Than being alone
And by yourself

What happened was...

I found myself
Driving home
Late at night
And it had been three weeks

It had been three weeks
And I hadn't heard from you
Spoken to you
Left you a voicemail
Tried to call you
Or thought of you

Three weeks
Three weeks is...
I think what happened

If you were to ask
I would think
Of all those other things
But really, I'd be thinking
Three weeks

We made it three weeks

And once you know
That you can spend
Three weeks
Away from someone
Who used to make you panic
By taking three steps
Away from you

Once you know
You're not 'us' anymore
Nothing that happens after that
Can ever change
What has become
Who you are