Borrowed Time
We both knew this wasn’t going anywhere permanent and that was fine,
She had a life in Denver and I had a lease on mine,
In Chicago, and we had a conference in between us for the week,
And by the third night we had found exactly what we’d seek.
She knocked on my hotel door at eleven on a Thursday,
Said she’d been in the conference bar debating the what-exactly,
Of the protocol when two people have been looking at each other all week,
I said the protocol is you knock on the door and you speak.
Borrowed time, that’s all we’ve got and we both knew it going in,
Borrowed time, seven days then Denver and the wind,
Takes the whole arrangement with it when the conference badge goes back,
Borrowed time, that’s the only thing we lacked,
She said she wanted the week, I said I’ll take whatever’s on the shelf,
Borrowed time, you give it all right to yourself.
We burned through the borrowed time with complete dedication,
Not sentimental about it, just thorough in the application,
Of the available hours to the thing we were both good at,
She said we should’ve found each other earlier and I said well, that.
Is the nature of borrowed time, you find it when you find it,
And you use it well or you don’t and she said you don’t mind it,
The temporary quality, I said the temporary quality is the point,
She said I know a man who gets it, this is my anoint.
Borrowed time, that’s all we’ve got and we both knew it going in,
Borrowed time, seven days then Denver and the wind,
Takes the whole arrangement with it when the conference badge goes back,
Borrowed time, that’s the only thing we lacked,
She said she wanted the week, I said I’ll take whatever’s on the shelf,
Borrowed time, you give it all right to yourself.
The last morning she was packing while I was watching from the bed,
And she said something I’m going to keep that doesn’t need to be said,
Out loud here, some things belong in the private archive permanently,
She picked up her bag and I walked her down to the taxi correctly.
We stood on the sidewalk for a moment in the specific weight of the ending,
And she kissed me in the way of someone who is not pretending,
And she got in the cab and I stood there in the good air of the thing,
Borrowed time, worth every offering.
Borrowed time, that’s all we’ve got and we both knew it going in,
Borrowed time, seven days then Denver and the wind,
Takes the whole arrangement with it when the conference badge goes back,
Borrowed time, that’s the only thing we lacked,
She said she wanted the week, I said I’ll take whatever’s on the shelf,
Borrowed time, you give it all right to yourself.
We both knew this wasn’t going anywhere permanent and that was fine,
She had a life in Denver and I had a lease on mine,
In Chicago, and we had a conference in between us for the week,
And by the third night we had found exactly what we’d seek.
She knocked on my hotel door at eleven on a Thursday,
Said she’d been in the conference bar debating the what-exactly,
Of the protocol when two people have been looking at each other all week,
I said the protocol is you knock on the door and you speak.
Borrowed time, that’s all we’ve got and we both knew it going in,
Borrowed time, seven days then Denver and the wind,
Takes the whole arrangement with it when the conference badge goes back,
Borrowed time, that’s the only thing we lacked,
She said she wanted the week, I said I’ll take whatever’s on the shelf,
Borrowed time, you give it all right to yourself.
We burned through the borrowed time with complete dedication,
Not sentimental about it, just thorough in the application,
Of the available hours to the thing we were both good at,
She said we should’ve found each other earlier and I said well, that.
Is the nature of borrowed time, you find it when you find it,
And you use it well or you don’t and she said you don’t mind it,
The temporary quality, I said the temporary quality is the point,
She said I know a man who gets it, this is my anoint.
Borrowed time, that’s all we’ve got and we both knew it going in,
Borrowed time, seven days then Denver and the wind,
Takes the whole arrangement with it when the conference badge goes back,
Borrowed time, that’s the only thing we lacked,
She said she wanted the week, I said I’ll take whatever’s on the shelf,
Borrowed time, you give it all right to yourself.
The last morning she was packing while I was watching from the bed,
And she said something I’m going to keep that doesn’t need to be said,
Out loud here, some things belong in the private archive permanently,
She picked up her bag and I walked her down to the taxi correctly.
We stood on the sidewalk for a moment in the specific weight of the ending,
And she kissed me in the way of someone who is not pretending,
And she got in the cab and I stood there in the good air of the thing,
Borrowed time, worth every offering.
Borrowed time, that’s all we’ve got and we both knew it going in,
Borrowed time, seven days then Denver and the wind,
Takes the whole arrangement with it when the conference badge goes back,
Borrowed time, that’s the only thing we lacked,
She said she wanted the week, I said I’ll take whatever’s on the shelf,
Borrowed time, you give it all right to yourself.