It started with a dedication

'Lost in admiration, happy birthday, I'm forever yours, blossom'

Faded red inside a tiny book of butterflies

I smiled, surprised at how when flickered through

The wings flew by spelled out my name Six months went by, the summer lost

Obsessively, the letters dropped into my life

The same soft blood smooth flowing hand

'Please try to understand, I have to see you, have to feel you

Tell you all the ways I need you, yours forever in love' Strange attraction spreads it's wings

It varies but the smallest things

You never know how anything will change

Strange attraction spreads it's wings

And alters but the smallest things

You never know how anything will fade The year grew old incessantly

She wrote to me, she'd started smoking poetry

I laughed in recognition of a favorite phrase

She'd pulled me in, I answered her, a Christmas card in sepia

Arranging when and where and how the two of us should meet Her opening so well prepared

A nervous smile, I couldn't take my eyes from her

She whispered, "Can I use some of your lipstick?"

It was perfect, so believable, I couldn't help but feel that it was real

And kissing crimson fell into her waiting arms Strange attraction spreads it's wings

It varies but the smallest things

You never know how anything will change

Strange attraction spreads it's wings

And alters but the smallest things

You never know how anything will fade So alone into the cold new year, without another word from her

I wrote to ask if we could maybe meet again before the spring

Weeks went by with no reply until once more my birthday came

With it my surprise, but this time nothing was the same 'I'm sorry, blame infatuation, blame imagination

I was sure you'd be the one but I was wrong

It seems reality destroys our dreams, I won't forget you, Blossom

Faded red inside a tiny book of old goodbyes Strange attraction spreads it's wings

Varies but the smallest things

You never know how anything will change

Strange attraction spreads it's wings

Alters but the smallest things and you never know

And you never know, and you never know