Well it´s five in the morning and the light´s already broken
And the rainy streets are empty for nobody else has woken
Yet you turn towards the window as he sleeps beneath the covers
And you wonder what he´s dreaming in his slumbers

There´s a clock upon the table and it´s burning up the hour
And you feel your life is shrinking like the petals of a flower
As you creep towards the closet you´re so careful not to wake him
And you choose the cotton dress you bought last summer

There´s a time of indecision between the bedroom and the door
But the part of you that knows that you can´t take it any more
There´s the promise of the future in the creaking of the floor
And you´re torn if you should leave him with a number

And in your imagination you´re a thousand miles away
Because too many of his promises got broken on the way
So you write it in a letter all the things you couldn´t say
And you tell him that you´re never coming home

She starts running for the railway station praying that her calculation´s right
And there´s a train just waiting there to get her to the city before night
A place to sleep a place to stay will get her through another day
She´ll take a job she´ll find a friend she´ll make a life that´s better

The passengers ignore her just a girl with an umbrella
And there´s nothing they can do for her, there´s nothing they can tell her
There´s nothing they could ever say would change the way she feels today
She´d live the life she´d always dreamed if he had only let her

Now in her imagination she´s a million miles away
When too many of his promises got broken on the way
So she wrote it in a letter all the things she couldn´t say
And she told him she was never coming home
She told him she was never coming home

I wake up in an empty bed a road drill hammers in my head
I call her name there´s no reply it´s not like her to let me lie
It´s time for work it´s time to go but something´s different I don´t know
I need a cup of coffee I´ll feel better

I stumble to the bathroom door, her make up bag is on the floor
It really is a mess this place it takes some time to shave my face
I´m not really thinking straight she never lets me sleep this late
I´m almost done and then I see the letter

In his imagination she´s a universe away
Too many of his promises got broken on the way
So she wrote it in a letter all things she couldn´t say
And she told him she was never coming home,
She told him she was never coming home,
She told him she was never coming home

I´m gonna live my life
And she told him she was never coming home
I´m gonna live my life in my own way