How do you feel when no eyes are watching?
For my part, I feel dark and icy seas encroaching.
If you said the same, I’d be incredulous
And if you didn’t, I’d think you callous.
There was a time (when the trees looked young and the air was sweet)
You imagined I was next to you when you lay down to sleep
You said it made you feel safe and whole
To summon my ghost, your dreams to patrol.
But don’t worry, baby, I still summon your ghost
Each night as I lay down I am her host
But she isn’t there to salve, balm or drive away my pain
She’s there so I can weep when I see your eyes again.
Before the blossom bloomed, before the snows,
Before autumn leaves and summer rainbows,
A year today I took a sad song and made it better
I found her, I went out to get her.
Happy Anniversary – If we had one;
But now it seems all our hopes have become undone.
Here’s to the nights of our lives that were brightest
Congratulations on creating these days darkest.
