It's Been a Slow Day (Tom and Sable) (requested by Flamebrawler)

A/N: This is actually a duet. This is an intense topic, so I decided to make it very heavy with emotions and settled on putting it in a song. Enjoy! PS: I know I didn't have to rewrite the chorus for each verse, but I thought it read better that way.

Verse One:

I've been thinking of closing the store now
Though it's only a little past eight
I know it's too early from what I'm used to
But business hasn't been too great

Besides, it's getting late

And memories found their way back to me
Like a shadow, they haunt what I've grown to be
But who am I, if anyone at all?
Just a tired shopkeeper in a town by the sea

Trying to set himself free

But what can I say?
It's been a slow day

Chorus:

Ain't it sad that you have to leave everything behind
For a dream you no longer chase?
Don't it hurt when your broken past can't be restored
It can only be erased?

Well, in the darkness of this store
I found time to recap what we've been through
And I realize dreams don't matter at all
For it's nothing if I don't share them with you

I know I shouldn't be thinking about these things anymore
But what can I say?
It's been a slow day

Verse Two:

I've been thinking of closing the store now
Though it's only eleven past eight
My sewing machine has stopped its low humming
And I've got my mind fixed on fate

And our first date

I know time would bring you back to me
If that was the way things were to be
But who am I to uncover
The memories we were never meant to see?

"Dreams before money"

But what can I say?
It's been a slow day

Chorus:

Ain't it sad that you have to leave everything behind
For a dream you no longer chase?
Don't it hurt when your broken past can't be restored
It can only be erased?

Well, in the darkness of this store
I found time to recap what we've been through
And I realize dreams don't matter at all
For it's nothing if I don't share them with you

I know I shouldn't be thinking about these things anymore
But what can I say?
It's been a slow day

Bridge: (sung together)

For so long I have hidden
And became a silhouette
For so long I've tried to face it
I've tried so hard to forget

I should've spoken up
You're only a short walk away...

Not today

Chorus: (sung together)

Ain't it sad that you have to leave everything behind
For a dream you no longer chase?
Don't it hurt when your broken past can't be restored
It can only be erased?

Well, in the darkness of this store
I found time to recap what we've been through
And I realize dreams don't matter at all
For it's nothing if I don't share them with you

I know I shouldn't be thinking about these things anymore
But what can I say?
It's been a slow day

Final Verse: (sung together)

I'm starting to make my way home now
I closed the store just past eight
'Cause business hasn't been too great
It's beginning to get late

I know I can't keep running away
Every time I'm reminded of you
But what can I say?
It's been a slow day