Birthday Cards

Birthday Cards
Every year I forgot your birthday
So every year you're born again
Whatever became of the pieces that made us fit

The lint to your sweater, so long as I'm close to you it doesn't matter
And lenses compress our lives into pocket size moment
Yours reduced to the three favorite photographs
Compelling me to ask
Where have you been?
Who have you become since you've been away?
Where, oh have you been?
What the hell have you become?
I thought you were the one
To the search and rescue team: you'll never discover
The whereabouts of the lost boy with nothing to lose
You'll scan the cities; the streets, they connect everyone
Still we feel so far from what it means to live one by one
I gave this life hell and in a moment I'm taking it back
I gave this life hell and in a moment I'm taking you back to
the place where this began

When we still had our innocence
Where have you been?
Who have you become since you've been away?
Where, oh have you been?
What the hell have you become?
I thought you were the one