today has been a surreal day...

I woke up this morning to my boyfriend tripping over his own headphones, which is a common occurrence in a house populated by klutzes and cats. We had coffee and then lazed in bed. One of my favourite bits of the weekend.

When we finally left the house, there was a poem (or more likely, a song) in our mailbox:

Tears

(chorus)
I loved you through the bad times,
Laughed with you through the good times,
Loving you in every way,
So why is she standing there
Beside you, instead of me

We loved in that first look,
Never questioning our feelings.
We lived and loved an eternity
In a single glance.
We shut out the world
And in the spring of our love,
I knew you loved me only.

(chorus)

You promised me a life-time
With years for our love to grow,
Then, in the summer of our life,
Your eyes turned to hers.
And mine to tears.
You left me to grow alone
And remember our love in song.

(chorus)

Sometimes I lie in bed dreaming
With the rain softly falling
Playing music on the roof
With the firelight dancing on the walls
And our song playing, we dance
Remembering, being wrapped in love

(chorus)


We were both weirded out by this. This is the second time that something has been left on our front porch-- the first time was a large bag of squash, which we found out much later had been dragged by our neighbour to our door and then left there when she didn't want to bring them upstairs.

However... a song? This has never happened before, and it is strange. Any possible jilted lovers that either of us have are either far away or would consider themselves too classy to leave lyrics in a mailbox.

We figure it is either meant for someone else (many people have lived here), a joke by one of our friends, a random person leaving a random poem in a random mailbox, or a sincere letter to either one of us. It might even just be the lady upstairs who said she wanted us to write songs using her lyrics.

Strangely enough, the dream with the radio this morning had inspired me to write a somewhat nostalgic fifties love song. I might use these lyrics for that.