Sweeter Than My Solitude

from Never Going Back Home by Zander Michigan

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I once waited for love
Thinking it would come to me
It was then I realized
Love isn’t for free
After that I suffered
Looking for love high and low
But I never found it
No matter where I go
I know you’re only trying to help
And I don’t mean to be rude
But I’ll only have you
If you’re sweeter than my solitude

I once was a man
But now I’m just a boy
I once built you up
Now I only destroy
And the wrecking ball comes down
I think that you should go
Before you become rubble
And get buried ‘neath the snow
I once called you a friend
But I always thought you were crude
Because I’ll only have you
If you’re sweeter than my solitude

I once played the game
But I forgot the rules
With thoughts that I could make it
And never finish school
But the executioner comes down
And tells me what to say before I go
All he says is repeat after me
“You love someone you’ll never know”
I just looked him in the eye
I wanted to say something lude
I won’t ever find nobody
Sweeter than my solitude

I wish I was Jack or Jim
To live where the lovely rivers flow
But I am from the Midwest
With nowhere else to go
But my life flashed before my eyes
What it said I don’t know
But it was disturbing
And dashed all my hopes
On the street I met a girl
She was quite the prude
I’ll only have you
If you’re sweeter than my solitude

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from Never Going Back Home, released September 1, 2013

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