For Our Life

In a different time

And a distant home

You hummed the only song

To help us sleep peacefully

The loneliness

And fear was gone

He said it comes and goes

So be patient in everything

Well we were showing off

And it worked so well

A kick and jump

And urge to uproot our certainty

I’m never gonna know

The secret in the way

You laid your home for us

In an empty room

I sang out loud

You were far away

But I longed for you terribly

And on a sinking ship

You said you lost your hope

When you lost your love

And felt them in everything

I’m never gonna know

The secret in the way

You laid your home for us

We tried to make it ordinary

Part of me was lost beneath our focus

Hold on to life

As it floats away

Be taken in

By everything

And I guess I feel

Quite different now

I’ve changed somehow

In little ways

Hold onto love

As it bends and strains

It held and pressed

Us into shape

We must have been

Away somehow

You’ve shown me now

It’s sad that you hadn’t

With anger felt

I buried deep

A lethal work

Protected me

And turned against

My wasting breath

What is anger but death

And lonesome regret

It hurt us both

You felt it too

You always knew

You always knew

So hold my breath

As you leave this here

I won’t forget

No I won’t forget

You here