Well it's five in the morning and the lights are already broken
And the rainy streets are empty for nobody else who's woken
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
You creep towards the closet you're so careful not to wake in
You choose the cotton dress you bought last summer
There's a time of indecision between the bedroom and the door
There's a part of you that knows that you can't take it anymore
There's a promise of the future in the creaking of the floor
And you're taught if you should leave him with a number
In your imagination you're a thousand miles away
Too many of his promises got broken on the way
So you wrote 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
There's a train just waiting there to get her to the city before night
A place to sleep, a place to stay, or get her through another day
She'll take a job, she'll find a friend, she'll make her life that's better
The passengers ignore her, just a girl with an umbrella
There's nothing they can do for her, there's nothing they could tell her
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
In her imagination she's a million miles away
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 bolt and hammer's 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 feel better
I stumble to the bathroom door, make-up bag is on the floor
It really is a mess this place, 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 the 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, I'm gonna live my life
She told him she was never coming home
I'm gonna live my life, I'm gonna live my life
She told him she was never coming home
I'm gonna live my life, I'm gonna live my life
She told him she was never coming home
She told him she was never coming home
I'm gonna live my life, I'm gonna live my life
I'm gonna live my life, I'm gonna live my life
I'm gonna live my life, I'm gonna live my life
I'm gonna live my life, I'm gonna live my life
She told him she was never coming home
She told him she was never coming home
She told him she was never coming home