Nathan Leigh Jones: Official Site

"The Way I'm Missing You" EP

01. The Way I'm Missing You
02. Day After Day
03. Way Back When
04. Insane
05. Your Best Words

THE WAY I'M MISSING YOU

Didn't mean to make you mad
Didn't want to start a fight
Could have talked it through today
But you vanished overnight
It's not about the keys you took to drive away my car
It's not about the things you purchased on my credit card
But it's all about the way I'm missing you

As for where to send this note
Well, it only took one guess
Searched the phone book for their name
Stumbled on your new address
But I'm not trying to track you down
To drag you back with me
I'm don't want to make you someone
You don't want to be
Cause it's all about the way I'm missing you

I'm missing you tonight
'Missing you' is missing out of sight
Missing you

Didn't mean to make you mad
Didn't want to start a fight

It's not about the keys you took to drive away my car
It's not about the things you purchased on my credit card
But it's all about the way I'm missing you

So come back missing you
Cause I am missing you
Come back missing you
Just come back, cause it's

All about the way I miss you
It's all about the way I need you
It's all about the way I'm missing you

DAY AFTER DAY

What am I to say that won't evoke the pain
That never seems to go away?
Words are hard to find when nothing comes to mind
But echoes of an empty promise
Like 'I'll always love you', or 'I'll never leave you'...

History goes to show your absence only grows
With every letter that I send
Seconds pass away as hours turn to days
And though I've heard it said before
To let bygones be bygones
I'm not letting go of this love, no no
No no no

Cause day after day and time after time
I find myself watching the window
Knowing that year after year
The flowers will fade away
But the longing for you just gets stronger

Nights are getting cold and days are wearing old
With nothing but the thoughts of you
Photos on the wall remind me of them all
So coping isn't all that easy
Yet I'll always love you
And I'll never leave this to be, no no
No no no

Cause day after day and time after time
I find myself watching the window
Knowing that year after year
The flowers will fade away
But the longing for you just gets stronger

Day after day you know the clocks are turning around
The clouds roll on over as the sun settles down
But as yesterday vanished, so tomorrow is grace
Day after day

What am I to say that won't evoke the pain
That never seems to go away after
Day after day and time after time
I find myself watching the window
Knowing that year after year
The flowers will fade away
But the longing for you just gets
Stronger and stronger and stronger

Tell me, what am I to say that won't evoke the pain
That never seems to go away?
Words are hard to find when nothing comes to mind
But echoes of an empty promise...

WAY BACK WHEN

Come take a trip down memory lane
Back before our lives had changed
Back before complications
We'd watch the sunset in the park
Drink tequila after dark
Count the stars until dawn

And in the summer we'd sleep
With a beach towel on the sand
In autumn we'd meet
For a soy chai latté somewhere, somewhere

And it takes me, takes me back
It takes me way back when
You'd make me, make me melt away
So hold me, hold me close
Hold me close again
And take me, take me way back when

We used to score the front row seats
To B-grade movies every week
Two for one on a Tuesday
We'd walk for hours in the rain
To find our favourite takeaway
Then call a cab to drive us home

And in the winter we'd dry
Near the open fireplace
In spring we'd just ride
'Til the roads turned into nowhere, nowhere

And it takes me, takes me back
It takes me way back when
You'd make me, make me melt away
So hold me, hold me close
Hold me close again
And take me, take me way back when

Take me way back when we laughed and when we cried
And everything between
When everything was you and me
And everything was how it should have been

So, take me, take me back again
Take me, take me way back when
Hold me, hold me close
Hold me close again
And take me, take me way back when

Every thought just takes me, takes me back
Takes me way back when
You'd make me, make me melt away
So hold me, hold me close
Hold me close again
And take me, take me way back when

INSANE

Would you say it's strange that it all could end this way
With your future engraved in the past
Cause it gets to me when I think that you would leave
When the best parts of you were with me

Do you think who I am is insane
To pursue you again and again?
Well, I've given my best
But it seems I'm only wasting my breath
Cause you're cutting my throat like a knife
When you think I'm too wrong to be right

While I still forgave every single stab you made
It's the wounds I find hard to forget
And yet my life would bleed if it meant that you'd be free
From the person you think you've become
Who would kill me with all that you've done

When you think I'm too wrong to be right
Hope fades into the black of the night
Though my heart's lying silent on it's death bed
Oh, it'll keep loving you
So even while you're cutting my throat
Let me offer these three words of hope:
I am waiting
Waiting for you to come back

Still you think who I am is insane
To pursue you again and again
Well, I've given my best
But it seems I'm only wasting my breath

Cause you're cutting my throat like a knife
When you think I'm too wrong to be right
And you're cutting my throat like a knife
When you think I'm too wrong to be right
And you're cutting my throat like a knife
When you think I'm too wrong to be right

YOUR BEST WORDS

It's three in the morning and I'm wide awake
I've burned all my bridges and dug my own grave
The party is over and I want to go home
I need to come home

Your last several letters have put me to shame
Out with the junk mail and sealed to this day
I guess I was scared of the truth
And what you would write to me
What did you write to me?

If you've been saving your best words for last
Then one final letter is all that I ask
Fill it with your best words and I'll take them on

And I'll reimburse every dollar I spent
Give me slave labour, I'll pay off this debt
Just let me camp out in the yard
At least I'd be close to you
I want to be close to you

Cause if you've been saving your best words for last
Then one final letter is all that I ask
Fill it with your best words and I'll take them on

And I understand if you bill me for cash
I guess it makes sense if you never write back
But send to me your best words
And I'll take them on

Are you still missing me, still missing me tonight?
You should know that missing me
Has seen that you were right

So write to me your best words
Send me your best words
Post me your best words
I must read your best words

Cause if you've been saving your best words for last
Then one final letter is all that I ask
Fill it with your best words
Fill it with your best words
Just fill it with your best words and I'll take them on

Write to me your best words
Send me your best words
Post me your best words
I must read your best words