Shakespeare

(mm-mm,

yeah)

I wrote five sonnets

on the back of receipts

Watching your footsteps

wander down the street

You glance across the table

with an easy smile

Then check your watch like I've been talking for a mile

I keep on dressing up my grief in rhymes

Trying to make you care

a thousand times

I feel like Shakespeare when you never want me here

Staging five-act tragedies inside my mind,

my dear

Pouring out my kingdom just to earn a simple glance

While you are stepping backward from the dance (ooh-ooh)

I draft the dialogue

to make you stay

Recounting everything

I didn't say

You call me friendly,

say I'm kind and sweet

Then hand the parchment back and take your seat

No curtain falls, no actor takes a bow

Just empty chairs and silence here right now

I wrote the greatest play you'll never read (ahhhh)

I feel like Shakespeare when you never want me here

Staging five-act tragedies inside my mind,

my dear

Pouring out my kingdom just to earn a simple glance

While you are stepping backward from the dance

(oh, from the dance)

I feel like Shakespeare...

And you're not even here. (mm-mm)