Instant Perfect Life

Portable good memories
make useful little tragedies
open them, drag them out
something you can write about

when I remember you in a better light
it's only cause I can't remember
how we used to fight

forgetful three-day driving trips
make accidental one-night slips
navigating old events
looking back makes perfect sense

when I remember you in a better light
it's only cause I can't remember
how we fight

in stronger hands
you wouldn't make the same demands
you wouldn't have an instant perfect life
on your better days
try to focus through the haze
remember that you had a perfect life

sleepwalk into troubled times
she never was a friend of mine
the friend that you wish she had been
would wake you up and reign you in

© 2006 She Hit Me First