E-mail To An Old Lover I Haven’t Seen In Years Who Sent A Friend Request on Facebook

This is a song based on an affair I never had with a woman who doesn't exist who I used to meet in a bar that's not real somewhere in Tupelo, which is real, but not as cool as you'd think the city where Elvis was born and raised would be.

And I'm doing my best to channel Tom Waits.

E-mail To An Old Lover I Haven’t Seen In Years Who Sent A Friend Request on Facebook

©2011 Joseph Gurner

It’s been so many years since the last time we spoke
I almost don’t know where to begin
So much has happened. My life has changed. So many stories have gone untold
It seems kinda pointless to tell it all

I guess the last time I saw you was in that bar in Tupelo
How long did we meet there each Friday night?
Six fourty five, our regular table, first drink always on me

Kentucky bourbon, no ice, gin and tonic for you


So many nights we’d sit there and unload all our burdens
Or maybe not say a word at all
We laughed until we cried or cried behind our laughter
Reaching out the only way we knew how


The world seemed so much colder out side that dirty window
Some times I wish we could have stayed inside for ever
But every time I made you smile, there was a little warmth inside me

Or maybe it was the bourbon... I don’t know


I know you couldn’t say goodbye and you’d know I’d never ask you
When I saw that empty table, I just knew
Weeks went by and each Friday night, the table stayed empty
In time I quit looking to see who came in through the door


It seems that you are happy. You’ve got your life together
Married. Divorced. And Children. A new city. New job
It seems we’ve both gone far from that table in the corner
But some times it still seems like we never left

I’d love to say that life’s been great But I know you’d know I’m lying
The cats are dead. I moved again. There’s a hole in the roof.
I can’t say it’s all been bad. Just life’s hills and valleys
But it seems some days the sun don’t come up at all


For a while it was a struggle to wake up every morning
But I got up and forced myself through each day
I have to say I’m happy now, or happy as I get
I’ve made it throught the hard parts so far




When you left, I didn’t look for you. I know that’s what you wanted.
Or maybe I just tell myself becasue it’s what I want to hear
I could tell your smile was hding, you pain that last night I saw you
Your eyes said what you couldn’t say. They told me goodbye

So many old memories have come back to the surface
The tears and the laughter feel just like yesterday
From time to time I’d think about you. What I’d say if I found you
But right now writing ll these things down, nothing sounds quite right


It’s so great to hear from you, is the lie I’ll tell for now
Let’s catch up. Write back to me. Tell me how you’ve been
We’ll share the little mundane things we share with other strangers
Then laught at the funny stories, meaningless and true


So please don’t take this the wrong way. I don’t think I want to do this
It seems so impersonal.Desperate and cold.
I know you’re only saying goodbye the way you never could
Wrapped up in hello, it’s been too long...

We had our moment and it went past. we can’t go there again.
And I don’t want just a shadow of you.
Just remember all the comfort we found in each other
At that table in that little bar somewhere in Tupelo

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