New Lover

I can't pretend that all is well, it's like I'm haunted by a ghost
There are times I cannot speak your name for the catchin' in my throat
There are things I will not sing for the sting of sour notes

I feel like a miser, I feel low and mean
For accusing you of stealin' what I offered you for free
Oh it beggars the belief sometimes what thieves we lovers be

I don't know who you're with these days, might be with someone new
And if you are, I hope he treats you like a lover ought to do
But whoever makes you happy, it don't really matter who
I've got a new lover now, I hope you've got a lover too

Praise the water under bridges, the time they say will heal
Praise the fonder, that still grows on the absent heart and fields
Praise be to this pain, these days it's all I seem to feel

Perhaps the fault was mine
Perhaps I just ignored who you're always gonna be
Instead of who I took you for
I've been treated worse it's true, still I expected more

But I will not chase your
Shadow as you go from room to room
Droppin' handkerchiefs and daggers, smokin' guns and other clues
For what someone did with someone and who did what to who
I've got a new lover now, I hope you've got a lover too

I've got a new lover now, I know that she's not mine
I only want to hold her, I don't need to read her mind
And she only looks like you
When she's in a certain light

I got a new lover now, she knows just what I need
When I wake up in the night, she can read me back my dreams,
And she loves them, though she never needs to tell me what they mean

I hope you've got a lover now, hope you've got somebody who
Can give you what you need like I couldn't seem to do
But if you're sad and you are lonesome and you've got nobody true
I'd be lying if I said that didn't make me happy too
I'd be lying if I said that didn't make me happy too