Dear 2004: I Miss You, Yeah I Miss You....

you say i only hear what i want to.
you say i talk so all the time so.

and i thought what i felt was simple,
and i thought that i don't belong,
and now that i am leaving,
now i know that i did something wrong 'cause i missed you.
yeah, i missed you.

and you say i only hear what i want to:
i don't listen hard,
i don't pay attention to the distance that you're running
or to anyone, anywhere,
i don't understand if you really care,
i'm only hearing negative: no, no, no.

so i turned the radio on, i turned the radio up,
and this woman was singing my song:
the lover's in love, and the other's run away,
the lover is crying 'cause the other won't stay.

some of us hover when we weep for the other who was
dying since the day they were born.
well, this is not that:
i think that i'm throwing, but i'm thrown.

and i thought I'd live forever, but now i'm not so sure.

you try to tell me that i'm clever,
but that won't take me anyhow, or anywhere with you.

you said that i was naive,
and i thought that i was strong.
i thought, "hey, i can leave, i can leave."
but now i know that i was wrong, 'cause i missed you.

you said, "you caught you 'cause you want me and one day you'll let me go."
"you try to give away a keeper, or keep me 'cause you know you're just scared to lose.
and you say, "stay."

you say i only hear what i want to.
-Ms. Lisa Loeb


Yeah 2004, that's right I miss you. I miss you like I miss hot 90s chicks in horned rim glasses, I miss you like Spike Lee missed the mark when he wrote and directed She Hate Me, and I miss you like I miss Alf. And that's a-fucking-lot.

You gave us 4 more years of a Bush presidency; that kind of sucked. But you made up for it. Just when I was about to tell you that it was time to part, you gave me Laguna Beach and we learned to love again. 2004, I will always keep you in my heart. I will never forget the good times you gave me, and the Carson Daily induced heart-break I suffered on December 31. 2004, I love you.... and its never too late for make-up sex.

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