You Must Be My Competition

You must be my competition

That must be why we can’t be

Holding hands and drinking milkshakes

Acting like the happy people do

You must be too strong for me

And I must be too loud for you

You must need the spotlight

And think

It’s not big enough for two

You must find me similar

And so you run to a quiet place

You must see me looking back

When you’re looking at your face

You must find my jokes too funny

You must find my wit too quick

You must find yourself attracted

Too much so to do something about it

You must think we’d kill each other

Or love each other far too much

That must be why you repel

Every time we touch

You must not be able to

Pinpoint all the things I’ll do

You must find that disconcerting

That must be too hard for you

You must think I’d take away

Everything that makes up you

You must not know that’s the last thing

That I’d wanna do

You must be my competition

Thinking that it’s you or me

You must have decided that awhile ago

That this is the way it has to be

You must think we’re better off

Being with people who aren’t like us

You must want a soundless love

You must not want a lot of fuss

You must be doing what makes you happy

Or at least I hope you do

You must have this all figured out

If not then I feel sorry for you