Twelve Steps To Emily

Mary

Mary, you were more than just a girl to me,
More than just a half-smile in the rain.
Mary, you were something of a mystery,
Now you’ll never need to cry again.

Laura

Laura, let me help this lover take her berth and sleep,
No-one needs to make a promise, less a promise I can’t keep.
Take your troubles, throw them to the sea,
Let the lost days drift now, let them be.

Jessie

She doesn’t know, she never will.
I only longed for Jessie to be thinking of me still.
But hoping for a miracle’s just taking life for read,
Forgetting that these miracles are all inside her head.

Clara

Clara settled down when she was only seventeen,
Had eight kids and now she thinks of me,
He’s in Spain on ‘business to be seen’,
She‘s alone, pretending to be free.

Kate

Kate likes me and I love her,
And she’s holed up in Rupert Street,
And I pretend that I don’t care,
I only hope I never see her there.

Anne

Someone told me about Anne,
She lives out on my street.
I think a lot about that girl,
I doubt we’ll ever meet.

Caitlin

Caitlin’s in another world,
For that I wish her all the luck this world has left to give,
She’s only starting out just now, she’s not even a kid.
I hope she gives her mother all the love her mother did.

Eliza

Eliza, while you're worlds away,
I sometimes feel you here,
You shouldn't be afraid of love,
I shouldn't be afraid of fear.

Angela

Your sparkle still burns on
long in my eyes, though it has long since left you,
And Angela, I wish I’d never met you,
Because I hurt you.

Jonie

Jonie do you know how blue I was?
Like bad news in a river drowned in loss,
I hung on all the sadness you had seen,
I wanted you to know how much you mean.

Nicole

Someone’s got the loving bad,
It’s more than words can ever say,
I tried to be with you, Nicole,
But Emily got in the way.

Holly

How happy can a lover be
To live to help put up a Christmas tree?
And Holly’s such a flawless girl
I want her more than peace within this world.

Emily

Emily does her pretty hair,
It comforts me to feel it here and there,
And Emily's the girl I love the most,
But Emily's a ghost.