Not that many see you, like I do.
I see you lay your food out on your scale
You wake at a different time than I do
But the first thing that I do is check my mail

Not that many see you, like I do.
The order of your pillows on your bed
I can't put them on there like you do
But I'll just keep trying instead

You feel as if we lose track of life
Cause you've got yours and I've got mine
I'm thinking of you all the time
And try to be there every night

There's only so much I can do
I try so hard all just for you
I feel you in my heart it's true
So don't leave me out here all alone

Not that many see you, like I do
Vulnerable and cute at the same time
I wish right now I could reach out for you
But you live out there on the other side

Your patience and your heart of gold
Your smile that really got me sold
You're prettier than what you've been told
And a body in the night to hold

There's only so much I can do
I try so hard all just for you
I feel you in my heart it's true
So don't leave me out here all alone

I know you know a lot of stuff about me
You know about Batman and my trucks
People say you deserve better
I don't think that it matters
Please don't make me lose your love

All your worries about your GPA
Not satisfied without an A
Expansion packs for games you play
No kids yeah you won't procreate

BNL without the THE
Your secrets shows on your tv
You're so much better I can see
than what you think that you could be

Stuffed animals from old to new
The calories on all your food
I think all of that makes you just you
I always seem to think you're cute

Now do you really need me to?
Like I nowadays just need you
I feel you in my heart it's true
Don't leave me out here all alone

MOTIVATION

When my relationship was more and more in shambles I'd get involved in the weirdest fights about nothing in particular. My fiancee got involved in fights with her mom and dad as well, convincing her I wasn't right for her simply because I called them on their behavior, something not many apart from her grandmother did. And since they can't handle criticism at all I from now on was considered the worst thing that could have ever happened to their family, even though I was their only friend who was honest to them, unlike most of the rest of the company they kept.

I came over to America in November when they had managed to convince my fiancee that I could no longer be trusted and she not knowing what to do with the relationship anymore. From the moment I landed and we saw eachother again it was obvious there was still an "us". We went back to her dorm which was a depressing place that would only bring her down even more.

Back home, in the middle of another totally irrational fight I told her I'd written a song like this. I kept trying to convince her that the life her parents wanted her to live was not the life to go for, especially considering how her mom and dad were at odds with eachother but pretended to be on the same page. Because, you know, what you don't acknowledge isn't there, right?

Even though she was constantly picking arguments with me, I still kept seeing the good in her, and once I played her this song on Skype, she broke down and cried her eyes out. All of it is written in the way I saw her, and not in the way she saw herself. Her worries about her GPA, her remembering pointless details about trucks (one of my hobbies) I talked about, my fascination with Batman, it was all these things that I wished she focussed on instead of trying to see something negative in something she'd loved before.

EXPLANATION

"I see you lay your food out on your scale" refers to my fiancee struggling to keep the weight off. She hated this about herself, and tried to lose weight in every way possible by excersizing in the gym a lot, a thing that really paid off. She wasn't fat, wasn't addicted to McDonald's food, she really tried. She also had this scale on which she weighed the food to make sure she'd not get too much, and I admired this much dedication. There were all these little things she hated about herself that I liked, I thought it made her the woman I loved, and once I was back home I wrote this one. We were more fighting than having normal, fun conversations as everything from now on was about how her parents rated the relationship, and them trying everything they could to make sure she'd break up with me. "If he shows up at your graduation, we won't be there" and more things like that.

"BNL without the THE" refers to me saying "The Barenaked Ladies" and her giving me a look and saying "It's not The Aerosmith" either, and she had a point. Barenaked Ladies are a favourite band of hers and I better say it right. I still remember the look she'd give me when I said it wrong.

"Your secret shows on your TV" refers to her watching shows on her laptop of which she didn't want to tell me what they were because she was afraid I'd think less of her, like her mom always did when she said she liked certain shows.

"Stuffed animals from old to new" refers to her telling me that her stuffed animals had to be on her bed in a certain order. I asked which one and she told me they were in order of how she got them. I thought that was the blatant truth (we all have our little things like this) yet it turned out that once she read the lyrics she had no idea what I was talking about and just took the piss out of me.