Now vs. Forever

In a just few minutes Your marathon breath will finally settle into mile times I'll watch your dreams moving Your head is forest And the creatures there don't run in straight lines In a just few hours, you'll text all your friends And as you shower I'll get texting mine And with our eyes heavy We'll rub out the sleep To see your bedroom in the light for the first time The first time When can I see you again? I'm hoping it won't be a while And maybe days later, a fortnight or something Hey, wait, we might be onto something here With all our sense-makings Our words are a prison And we're not in the business But more in lightning storms And John Williams scores We're nowhere near as clever as our student debt suggests, yet When can I see you again? I'm hoping it won't be a while I'm walking home in your clothes Borrowing your old shirt And your poorly hid smile In a few weeks scratch our names on To the side of some state highway And like those autographs There's no promise this will last Can't predict the future Can't rely on past but Now is not forever So don't think about forever Right now When can I see you again? Hoping it won't be a while I'm walking home in your clothes Borrowing your old shirt Right now the sun's rising I really should sleep Though any dream would disappoint me, dear