Message for an Answering Machine Songtext
von Simians

Sorry I missed you
I miss you
But I don′t allow myself to think about
Where you are or whom you're with
I′d much prefer to think about how quickly we forget
All summer long I've been alone
When I call you don't answer your phone
And it seems so appropriate you went away
On Independence Day

You and I are going to die
At the end of our lives
But the song survives


I do not mind dedicating all these youthful days to isolation
There′s little hesitation
Things are being washed away more with each passing day
There′s a sentiment it gets me in
More important than whatever else is happening
Something's happening in me
I′m feeling like I shouldn't need
And you′ve been what I needed most
So I purged those haunting memories
And I exorcized your ghost

You and I are going to die
At the end of our lives
But the song survives

Life is but a blink in time
Strange for us the paths aligned
The whole affair, so brief and fleeting
Hardly seems worth repeating (repeating)
I only mention it to say for every loss there is a gain
If your world gets shattered you can still go on
The heart endures, though they are gone