Painted pictures, 2 am driftings

The sound of the rain

Candles shift the walls, moving sharply

What's left to explain

When you told me you ought to be going

I could sense how the night was exploding

If I told you that I noticed

If I told you this for certain

You'd see me as scarred

Your eyes so strained, so innocent

In a sense it's the way we both are

So don't show me the home you've recaptured don't remind me, I was there when it shattered each time I returned to the ocean

I walked on the cold sandand it taught me

To float, like a bird across the sky

Watching all the moments ease by

Feeling close enough to try

In the darkness in a shadow

In the places only I know

I run from the rain

My eyes so wide so desperate

To pull light from the pain

So don't show me I learned my own balance don't remind me, my whole world

Was challenged

Each time I return to the ocean

I close my eyes, I listen

I float, like a bird across the sky

Watching all the moments ease by

Feeling close enough to try

Close enough this time

In this strange place

There's no direction to guide us around

The ones that move slowly

Keep to the ground

And in some distant time

When your reflection

Appears a stranger from some other day

I'll know what you're thinking

I'll feel the same way

I float, like a bird across the sky

Time and time again I know why

I feel close enough to try

I close my eyes and

Float, across the sky

Watching as the moments ease by

So close, close enough to try