How long can we hold on Besides years what keeps us together We play our parts but whom do we care for We don't touch we don't even talk And we never ever get anything that we want Let me apologize That day to day not a lot has changed Nothing at all but the feeling of Love has changed its so much different now Different now How long can this go on Everyday I'm holding your telephone calls In a mid-west town I lay awake in the bed of a different girl Thinking of you Feeling no mistake Had been made Outside of hurting you I hurt you How long we're terminal Yesterday, I wrote you a letter Explaining how we shouldn't be together But somehow it never got mailed I run away From the pain Not like a man But I know no better way How long When we're terminal