Words traveling
long distances
through underground
underwater
wires and fibers
and I can hear you,
your echoed voice,
and I can barely
understand
comprehend
your speech
still drunk
you speak 
word after
senseless word
and my presence here
on the other end
is a given
I'll always be here
I'll always be here
I never imagined
I'd be here

Still drunk
you speak
unrecognizable
a stranger to me
and my love
and how can I
not wonder
how you were
ever familiar
never familiar
yet I'll always be here
I'll always be here
I never imagined
I'd be here

Still drunk
you speak
and somehow
last night
it was enough
always enough
it's never enough
and soon
I will be absent
on the other end
and still drunk
you will speak
not to me
not here
not anymore
I'm not here
I'm not here
I never imagined
I wouldn't be here