Silent Distance

Lyric

Your footsteps fade along the road
A name I’m scared to say out loud
Your silhouette dissolves in smoke
A sentence that I never spoke

I fold your image into night
Then tuck it where there’s little light
You linger like a distant sound
A song I can’t completely drown

Every window knows your glow
Every shadow feels you close
I reach my hand through falling rain
But nothing ever stays the same

You’re just beyond my trembling hands
A quiet line I can’t withstand
So close I feel you in my chest
Too far to ever be confessed

You live between my breaths and fears
A place untouched by all my years
I’m standing where the light runs thin
Watching you from outside in

Your voice is drifting down the hall
A call I’m afraid to recall
I write your name in misted air
Then watch it disappear from there

The night keeps pulling us apart
A silent tear inside my heart
You move like water through my grip
A moment I could never keep

Maybe time will tilt the floor
And open up another door
Or maybe I’ll remain right here
A ghost you’ll never feel or hear

You’re just beyond my trembling hands
A quiet line I can’t withstand
So close I feel you in my chest
Too far to ever be confessed

You live between my breaths and fears
A place untouched by all my years
I’m standing where the light runs thin
Watching you from outside in

Rain erases every sign
That once said “you were mine”
If love is something I can’t reach
I’ll hold it softly, out of speech.