New Lover

I can’t pretend that all is well, it’s like I’m haunted by a ghost
There are times I cannot speak your name for the catching in my throat
There are things I will not sing for the sting of sour notes

I feel like a miser, I feel low and mean
For accusing you of stealing what I offered you for free
Still it beggars the belief sometimes what thieves we lovers be

I don’t know who you’re with these days, might be with someone new
And if you are, I hope he treats you like a lover ought to do
But whatever makes you happy, it don’t really matter who
I got a new lover now, I hope you got a lover, too

Praise the water under bridges, he time they say will heal
Praise the fonder that still grows on the absent heart in fields
Praise be to this pain these days, it’s all I seem to feel

Perhaps the fault was mine, perhaps I just ignored
Who you were always gonna be instead of who I took you for
I’ve been treated worse, it’s true, still I expected more

But I will not chase your shadow as you go from room to room
Dropping handkerchiefs and daggers, smoking guns and other clues
For what someone did to someone and who did what with who
I've got a new lover now, I hope you got a lover, too

I got a new lover now, I know that she’s not mine
And I only want to hold her, I don’t need to read her mind
And she only looks like you when she’s in a certain light

I got a new lover now, she knows just what I need
When I wake up in the night, she can read me back my dreams
And she loves them though she never needs to tell me what they mean

I hope you got a lover now, hope you’ve got somebody who
Can give you what you need like I couldn’t seem to do
But if you’re sad and you are lonesome and you got nobody true
I’d be lying if I said that didn’t make me happy, too
I’d be lying if I said that didn’t make me happy, too