I tried to talk to you, can't get past the weather The friend I thought I knew found somethin', somewhere better So I'm hanging on your line, thought we could speak together Tell me what it is with you, you seem gone forever I'm spendin' all my time driving 'round fakin' clever With a girl who seems all right and another one who's better I don't know if I lied when I said we're not together But I try to talk to you, somehow you seem gone I know what could have been. Try not to think about it Found it hard to live with this, and longed to live without it My dreams have caught me out, I find myself surrounded By the odds of our own end. Enough said about it I'm spendin' all my time driving 'round fakin' clever With a girl who seems all right and another one who's better I don't know if I lied when I said we're not together But I try to talk to you, somehow you seem gone I've given up something, I guess that doesn't matter I've started other things, I guess that doesn't matter I finally wrote your song, another unsent letter In a pile addressed to you, care of somethin', somewhere better I'm spendin' all my time driving 'round fakin' clever With a girl who seems all right and another one who's better I don't know if I lied when I said we're not together But I try to talk to you, somehow you seem gone I'm spendin' all my time driving 'round fakin' clever With a girl who seems all right and another one who's better I don't know if I lied when I said that I'm together But I try to talk to you, somehow you seem gone forever Yeah, I try to talk to you, somehow you seem gone forever Yeah, I try to talk to you, somehow you seem gone forever Yeah, I try to talk to you, somehow you seem gone