Favourite Patient

[Verse 1]
When you get home from work
And you change out your shirt
I'll watch the light just play and fall
Right off your skin
In the flickers of the moonlight
I can tell that something's not right
That there's a whole world in there
That you won't let me in
To understand it, how could anyone even begin?

[Verse 2]
So you ask me how my day went
I try to feign some sense of achievement
And I run my mouth till I forget
I haven't asked you a thing
My selfish little mind ran away with itself again
Maybe I'm too scared to ask you
Or it's the insignificance of all that I do
When I spend my time walking around in all I've left unsaid
While you've been working all night and the ward's running out of beds

[Verse 3]
I finally ask you how your day went
You say you lost your favourite patient
While I was working on a masterpiece no one will ever hear
I can't help but think, "What the hell is it that I'm even doing here?"

[Verse 4]
Because your life is in the moment
What is needed, most important
You put yourself to one side and provide
Do what needs to be done
Mine is a world of my own making
Words I've swallowed, time I'm taking
You don't judge or ever question what it is I do it for
But I watch you and I know I could do so much more

[Outro]
I hope I can help in some way
I hope I can help in some way
I hope I can help in some small way
I hope I can help in some way
I hope I can help in some way
I hope I can help in some small way