what it takes to catch a fish

"I couldn't tow the line..." he said, "so I'm tossing you back".
It was NEVER that you couldn't tow the line,
you had already caught the fish...
I thought you knew, when i told you you were mine...

at the time, you had bigger fish to fry
it was NEVER that you couldn't tow the line
that thought's a lie...
you left the fish floundering in the cooler
busy fighting off the sharks

It was NEVER that you couldn't tow the line,
you had already caught the fish...
I thought you knew, when I gave you the time...

I hope you didn't mean it when you said that
I know I'm just a small fish
in a vast sea... but, what?
didn't we mean something?
we had it all, in the palms of our clammy hands

It was NEVER that you couldn't tow the line,
you had already caught the fish...
I thought you knew, when i made the rhyme...

now i worry we are sinking

that the sharks have won...
i hope that time will prove me wrong
i hope we find the sun
i miss what i knew
before it all came undone...

It was NEVER that you couldn't tow the line,
you had already caught the fish...
I thought you knew, when i told you you were mine...