Lay With Me and Waste My Time

You got a lot of things to say

And empty notebooks by the bed

Take an ounce of me

And leave the rest for Sunday

I gotta break myself up

For you

Too much, too good

It’s all the same

Left to devices

I can’t share

You put me up

Now let me down

Lay with me

And waste my time

Trace the numbers

Leave the lines

I’m gonna call you

But I won’t

Promises are kept

By people who can afford

To line their pockets

With sideway poems

Lucky people

Not like us

Who lay up

Waiting to see

If someone

Makes them

Pay their bill

Clocks get lost

And so do I

Lay right here

Let time go by

You ever shut a man up

With just one look

I’m all in knots

And I don’t mind

Cut me up

So you can see

That there’s not much more

To me

I bought the soda you like

It’s in the fridge

But don’t get up yet

I’m not ready

A blues song

Comes and goes

And that’s just fine

Lay with me

And waste my time

I’m all tied up

And I don’t mind

Lay with me

And waste my time

You got the covers

On your side

I’m gonna start

Losing my mind

One day they’ll discover me

Laying in this bed

They’ll see a man

Who bet and lost

But they’ll never know

The cost

See if you fit into me

I’ll take the chances

You can’t see

Destroy the evidence

That’s fine

Lay with me

And waste my time

I wish you’d found some other guy

Another night, another bed

But we’ve already made mistakes

So we’ll just lay in them instead

You got your hair under my head

You took your ring off

And put it on me

Made me promise

To love you

As good as he

Used to do

But I can’t afford

The poetry

To put inside

My pockets

So I lied and said--

I do

My last lie

And it’s going

To you

But it’s okay

Because hope

Is just a messed up kinda lie

You’ll find that out someday

But for now

Lay with me

And waste my time