What I miss about you

Katie Melua has the unique ability to make me taste and smell and feel everything she describes. Another impressive thing about her is that she makes me ache to grow up just a bit more, to become a woman, to buy my own tea and feel confident when walking into a bar or down the street, to belong in my own body. Her "s"es are so soft and her voice is heavenly. Lovely little love stories, uncomplicated heartache, streetlights, beautiful life. I think Katie and me are in it for life.

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missing the train every morning at eight fifty-two
sipping coffee from the same cup as you
the sharing of secrets we thought no one else knew
that's what I miss about you

the new way that love had made me see
your bashful grin when you asked if I would like your key
the knowing way you used to caress me
that's what I miss about you

you stole in with your starry smile, exciting me
driving with you in your new car, feeling free
and if it's true that love is blind, then I was blind willingly
you made me feel we had a future that could be and would be

the way you said I'd be no one on my own
your habit of soaking yourself in overpriced cologne
the way you turned the lights out when I knew you were home
that's what I don't miss about you

I bet you're using your weary magic like it's new
driving so fast with a new fool beside you
presumably believing she's the last of the lucky few
I wonder if she knows she's being lied to, like I do

the way I only doubted myself when I was with you
like I was wrong for expecting something from life too
your skill of putting me down in front of everyone we knew
that's what I don't miss about you