Ryan Adams - Dear Chicago Lyrics

Dear Chicago, you'll never guess
You know the girl, you said
I'd meet someday?
Well, I got something to confess

She picked me up on Friday
Asked me if she reminded me of you?
I just laughed and lit a cigarette
Said, "That's impossible to do"

Life's gotten simple since
And it fluctuates so much
Happy and sad and back again
I'm not crying now too much

I think about you all the time
It's strange and hard to deal
I think about you lying there
And those blanket's lie so still

Nothing breathes here in the cold
Nothing moves or even smiles
I've been thinking some of suicide
But there's bars out here for miles

Sorry about the every kiss
Every kiss you wasted bad
I think the thing you said was true
I'm gonna die alone and sad

The wind's feelin' real these days
Yeah, and baby it hurts me some
Never thought I'd feel so blue
New York City, you're almost gone

I think that I've fallen out of love
I think I've fallen out of love
I think I've fallen out of love, with you

• Anonymous

  I'm totally obsessed with this. Sometimes I think my husband must wonder if it could be a legitimate ground for divorce that I listen to this song sooo much. It's so sad, but I just can't quit listening to it! I love the way the instruments play around the melody of the words and not with it, if that makes sense to anyone. And then the ending is finished on this expectant note so that you feel like it might keep going inside Ryan Adams head and you keep wondering what it could be. And the lyrics just astound me. Who hasn't ever felt so sad they... I don't know. I can just relate to this type of misery and depression really well. More like you've lost an idea or dream, but one that was more real than an actual person or place, and losing it hurts you so bad you feel a little branded, changed. That's how this song make me feel, what it means to me.