I Write Your Name Lyrics - Jim Carroll

I write your name 

Everywhere I go 

Like a worn out code 

Just to let you know 

I write your name 

On my loneliness 

On the closet hook where you hung that dress 

Don't you see 

You turn this trust 

To wind and dust and it's choking me 

It's hard to touch the sun 

And be the only one, then watch it run away 

I never thought a change could terrify this way 

I love you twice you know 

Once for work, once for play 

So I got this pen 

It doesn't hurt me when 

I write your name 

On tv screens, 

On empty plates, on magazines 

I write your name 

In san francisco 

On bathroom walls and new wave discos 

It's hard to live in hate 

There's no day and night 

There's no time or date 

You were gone like sweat and rain 

Through my own two hands, 

I write your name in vain 

I can't believe you meant 

When you walked out of that door 

To put off any chance to be with you once more 

The only thing you left behind was terror 

You're like an echo in an empty mirror 

I need the proof to show 

To let them know, to let them know 

I write your name 

I write your name 

With thick blue ink 

On stones I throw just to watch 'em sink 

I write your name 

On a great wood beam 

On an ancient ship in a fading dream 

I write your name 

On every move I make 

On the things I fake, on my own mistakes 

I write your name 

On my naked fright 

For the final time, I write your name tonight 

I never knew a word 

Could take it all away 

And I wish I never heard 

The words you had to say 

But there is nothing left to find of you 

I left behind the final clue 

But I still have this pen 

And every now and then 

I write your name 

I write your name 

I write your name