Broken Tides

Since I saw you,

I dreamed to live

Another day in paradise with you

But paradise is a bleeding thing

That stains everything it touches through

I found you waiting in the dark

Like a prayer that never reached the sky

Your breath was heavy with desire

Your hands were learning how to lie

We’re fading in a velvet sky

Where love is just a softer lie If we fall,

don’t ask me why Just drift away,

just drift away There was a name I almost said

It lingered softly on my tongue

A fragile echo in my head

Of something lost, or left undone

I touched your face like sacred ground But something moved beneath your

skin A quiet hunger,

raw and deep The kind of love that draws me in

We’re fading in a velvet sky Where love is just a softer

lie If we fall,

don’t

ask me why Just drift away,

just drift away We move like smoke in velvet light Two shadows

folding into night Your voice— A ghost inside a dying tape Repeating

words we never meant A name returns but never stays Like breath

dissolved in slow decay And God— He never answered when we called

Or maybe He was never there at all We breathe the dust,

we taste the flame

I almost whisper your name

We’re fading in a velvet sky

No absolution left to buy If we fall,

we let it die Just drift away,

just drift away