"Text Message Unsent" lyrics
(from "I Love Boosters" soundtrack)
Tell me, Reggie, how is it you spell it
When you're in love with something so dead you can smell it?
Like two hearts preserved in maple syrup
And the boy that you love is off dying in Europe
Or Asia or something, you forgot to ask
It's been seven long, horrible years since you last
Told him you loved him, but not what that meant
It's too much, so it dies in text message unsent
You once told me about your happily ever after
Nobody else was in it, but you said it with laughter
"I'd be a writer, you'd play your guitar
We'd both have each other like two summer stars"
But I was alone when I moved to New York
And the place that you dreamed of's not there anymore
And all my words seem to be able do
Is paint all these desperate portraits of you
So you lived out your life how you thought you deserved it
And spent all your nights busy feeling deserted
Tell your girlfriend she means something more than she does
The last key to unlock the boy who never was
But you saw him, you swear it, he was there on the corner
Across from the house that now sits like a mourner
Empty of everything it every loved
While torn up drafts of letters rain down from above
I remember when you told me 'bout your happily ever after
Nobody else was in it, but you said it with laughter
I'd be a writer, you'd play your guitar
We'd both have each other like two summer stars
But I was alone when I moved to New York
And the place that you dreamed of's not there anymore
And all my words seem to be able do
Is paint all these desperate portraits of you
And will you be alone when you see him again?
Maybe alone is better than just being friends
Oh, it can't be, there's nothing as cold as this pain
Of a soul too big for one body to contain
It's so daunting a task, this holding out hope
Chasing after the Argo in a little rowboat
There's so much that you want to be able to say
Before Charybdis pulls you away
Can we still have that ending you told me about?
Before we got older and filled up with doubt
'Cause I was holding back tears that night in your car
Now I'd give everything I have just to hear your guitar
I'd have died to have had you with me in New York
'Cause these upstate stars ain't cutting it anymore
And all the river, the trees, and the streets seem to do
Is reflect back to me a picture of you
So what is the story you want them to tell?
Will you take off the mask though it wore you so well?
Will you go down this heart break town's tragic hero?
With me as your sidekick, the lovesick Pierrot?
When you're in love with something so dead you can smell it?
Like two hearts preserved in maple syrup
And the boy that you love is off dying in Europe
Or Asia or something, you forgot to ask
It's been seven long, horrible years since you last
Told him you loved him, but not what that meant
It's too much, so it dies in text message unsent
You once told me about your happily ever after
Nobody else was in it, but you said it with laughter
"I'd be a writer, you'd play your guitar
We'd both have each other like two summer stars"
But I was alone when I moved to New York
And the place that you dreamed of's not there anymore
And all my words seem to be able do
Is paint all these desperate portraits of you
So you lived out your life how you thought you deserved it
And spent all your nights busy feeling deserted
Tell your girlfriend she means something more than she does
The last key to unlock the boy who never was
But you saw him, you swear it, he was there on the corner
Across from the house that now sits like a mourner
Empty of everything it every loved
While torn up drafts of letters rain down from above
I remember when you told me 'bout your happily ever after
Nobody else was in it, but you said it with laughter
I'd be a writer, you'd play your guitar
We'd both have each other like two summer stars
But I was alone when I moved to New York
And the place that you dreamed of's not there anymore
And all my words seem to be able do
Is paint all these desperate portraits of you
And will you be alone when you see him again?
Maybe alone is better than just being friends
Oh, it can't be, there's nothing as cold as this pain
Of a soul too big for one body to contain
It's so daunting a task, this holding out hope
Chasing after the Argo in a little rowboat
There's so much that you want to be able to say
Before Charybdis pulls you away
Can we still have that ending you told me about?
Before we got older and filled up with doubt
'Cause I was holding back tears that night in your car
Now I'd give everything I have just to hear your guitar
I'd have died to have had you with me in New York
'Cause these upstate stars ain't cutting it anymore
And all the river, the trees, and the streets seem to do
Is reflect back to me a picture of you
So what is the story you want them to tell?
Will you take off the mask though it wore you so well?
Will you go down this heart break town's tragic hero?
With me as your sidekick, the lovesick Pierrot?
