[Verse 1]
Even though you know that you never said it right
I don't want you to now, not just to be polite
If you figured the words, you wouldn't let them go
If you worked up the nerve, you'd say it like a joke
I don't know why time won't let me go back twice
I know that's bending the rules, but don't that work sometimes?
I don't want you to ask what I am doing here
1979, that was a different year

[Bridge]
I've been here too long
Would you like time on your own?
If I'm imposing on you
Well, it's only 'cause I had nothing to do

[Verse 2]
You tell me you know, like all your thoughts are facts
Like no one еlse can see that everyonе's in drag
Go ahead and go, I have got nowhere to be
Go ahead and perform your personality
I just want you to know that if you don't come back
I don't want you to change, I never felt like that
So, I'm not gonna ask you to apologize
Think you might've mistook me for a different guy
[Chorus]
I've been alone for such a long time (I've been so alone)
I've been alone for such a long time, darlin'
If you miss a beat, would it be mine? (Would it still be mine?)
'Cause I been alone for such a long time, darlin'

[Bridge]
You stood in the door
Watched as I wept
But loneliness suits
Me

[Verse 3]
Just a lie that you told with my name in quotes
There's always something in me that comes around too slow
Have to let you go now I have to let you be
There was some part of you that never wanted me
That won't happen again and I can take your blame
If you were reading my thoughts you'd see the ways I've changed
That was somebody else living another life
Think it's time that I left the thought of it behind

[Chorus]
I've been alone for such a long time (I've been so alone)
I've been alone for such a long time, darlin'
If you miss a beat, would it be mine? (Would it still me mine?)
'Cause I been alone for such a long time, darlin'
I've been alone for such a long time
I've been alone for such a long time, darlin'
If you miss a beat, would it be mine?
'Cause I been alone for such a long time, darlin'
[Post-Chorus]
No use in me
Calling for you
I bet you forgot
My name