From the recording Bookmark (2004)
(capo 2, key of D)
Producer Andrew (Osenga) seemed to like the effect of me sitting alone in a cold room belting out this song into a couple of sympathetic microphones bearing the brunt of all those “meantimes"?.
Lyrics
In The Meantime
(Eric Peters)
you’re a pew full of days
and you see the mess I’ve made
I never knew you girl
without the weight of the world
I’ve gone and changed my mind
for the final, hundredth time
what good are these defenses
if love is so relentless
you can change your mind
in the twinkling of an eye
you can change your heart
in the meantime
you learn to win and you learn to lose some
but this has the trappings of a new one
you never finish what you started
love’s just a word that you outsmarted
so, who am I to blame you
I’m just a stepchild in an otherwise guilty room
I barely even recognize myself
now I’m a second-rate loser who looks like somebody else
you can change your mind
in the twinkling of an eye
you can change your heart
in the meantime, in the meantime