One Step Behind You

I'm moving,
I'm not going to rest till I find you,
I'm following one step behind you,
I do what I do to remind you,
I'm following one step behind you.

I've been keeping strange hours, I've been saying strange things,
I've been places where I shouldn't go,
But I catch conversations that feature your name,
And my ears and my eyes never close.

I've been all of the places that you used to be,
But your friends don't remember my face.
I don't know if you wonder what happened to me,
I don't vanish that easy
I'll make you believe me...

Does a voice sound familiar on the landing below?
Are the footsteps behind you like mine?
You're a thought in my head I could never let go,
And that thought takes up all of my time.
Swallowed up by obsessions that can't be denied,
I can't make out what's right or what's wrong.
Swallowed up by the whirlpools that call in the night.
And they show me no mercy, my reason deserts me, I'm moving.

There's so many people that you knew
To understand everything you do
You're too far ahead now to need them
They live down your street, you can't see them.
The small and the crushed and the helpless,
The weak and the cruel and the useless,
We're following one step behind you.

And I just want to sleep,
I want a new start tomorrow,
I don't even want to touch you,
I just want to follow.

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