Fading Below Him

{intimate fingerpicked acoustic guitar intro} (hummmmm) {warm room reverb}

Left your keys on the counter step

Your coffee cup is sitting cold

Just another trace of you I kept

Another story left untold

(ahhhh) And the silence is a heavy weight

In the rooms where we used to laugh

Now I'm standing at the garden gate

Staring at our photograph {subtle bowed cello enters} And I watch the

autumn leaves fall down

Like the promises we couldn't keep

Now you're halfway across this town

And I can't even fall asleep

(ooh-ooh) {full rich strings and

delicate acoustic strumming} Saw your coat in the hallway light

Almost called your name out loud

I've been talking to myself at night

Lost inside a lonely crowd

Did I let go too soon

Did we run out of time

Now I'm under a pale blue moon

Paying for my crime (no-oh)

Just a shadow on the floor

Where you don't live anymore

(hummmmm) {acoustic guitar fades out slowly to silence}