I write your name

Everywhere I go

Like a worn out code

Just to let you know



I write your name

On my loneliness

On the closet hook where you hung that dress



Don't you see

You turn this trust

To wind and dust and it's choking me



It's hard to touch the sun

And be the only one, then watch it run away



I never thought a change could terrify this way

I love you twice you know

Once for work, once for play

So I got this pen

It doesn't hurt me when



I write your name

On TV screens,

On empty plates, on magazines



I write your name

In San Francisco

On bathroom walls and New Wave discos



It's hard to live in hate

There's no day and night

There's no time or date



You were gone like sweat and rain

Through my own two hands,

I write your name in vain



I can't believe you meant

When you walked out of that door

To put off any chance to be with you once more



The only thing you left behind was terror

You're like an echo in an empty mirror



I need the proof to show

To let them know, to let them know

I write your name



I write your name

With thick blue ink

On stones I throw just to watch 'em sink



I write your name

On a great wood beam

On an ancient ship in a fading dream



I write your name

On every move I make

On the things I fake, on my own mistakes



I write your name

On my naked fright

For the final time, I write your name tonight



I never knew a word

Could take it all away

And I wish I never heard

The words you had to say



But there is nothing left to find of you

I left behind the final clue

But I still have this pen

And every now and then

I write your name

I write your name

I write your name





Copyright Dr. Benway Music, ASCAP (1983