• Sometimes I’ll still feel you
    Caught unawares
    Did you call out my name?
    I'll turn, unprepared

    You are nowhere, and so I walk on
    With the sun beating down overhead
    I long for the night to come

    For you are just beyond the shadows
    I reach for when I sleep
    The smells of moonlit meadows
    Rain and cigarettes
    That sink into my soul, so deep

    In the faint starlight I still see your reflection
    A waking dream, you offered me protection
    From the dawning of the sun

    But in the cold light of day
    The shadows disappear
    Your song is now silenced
    And I’ve lost my winding way

    So I stumble on with no shade from the sun
    Your scent lingers in the chill air
    While I wither and fade
    From the days to come

    And though your ghost cries out to me
    From beyond the velvet darkness
    You are nothing but that, a ghost, a shade
    Of what couldn’t be; a wish,
    A memory.

    And so I walk on in the sun.