are you okay?

You look older than I remember

And I guess that some of that wear may be my fault

And I can't quite figure out which fight had been our last

Or if that one even mattered much at all

Disillusioned as snow angels who thought their wings were permanent

In seclusion, you were faithful or at least hid your finer print

How dumb I was, in hindsight, to think that I could really know

Much of anything about anything, though

And does being in Los Angeles bring me to mind?

And does wine and Billie Holiday still make you cry?

When you call, is it to open up a door to better days?

Or is it simple as the way you wanna say

"Are you okay?"

An empty cup can't fill another

Why did that take us so long to figure out?

There were sides of you where I swore, "I could love her"

But to love takes so much more than knowing how

And I'm still in that apartment where we were big kids playing house

Where we bought the cups and curtains to imitate settling down

And I kept some of our pictures and I wear my birthday watch

To remind me of the man I'm glad I'm not

Does your new boyfriend know how much I still mean to you?

Do you change some of the details for a more convenient truth?

Can he translate how you hold his hand into levels of your pain?

Does he know to ask, despite what you may say?

Are you okay?

You're a child on an airplane, you fear what's out of your control

And you love New York 'cause it was somewhere else for you to go

And you dyed your hair so you could look your mirror in the eyes

And pretend she's someone you don't recognize

So it's time to lose my number and let the past be where we stay

When you've had too much to drink again, someone else can hold your waist

We were never quite as good as how your memory replays

And I don't owe you no answer when you say

"Are you okay?"

Are you okay?