Fading Alleys

{fragile fingerpicked acoustic guitar intro} {soft weeping cello swells} (ahhhh) Rain on

the glass, a cold grey afternoon

Watching the shadows

crawl across the room

Your empty coffee cup

left on the sill

Everything is quiet,

everything is still

{close-mic'd breathy male vocal} And the silence is too loud to bear

Searching for your outline in the chair

Oh, how did we lose the spark we had?

Now we are just two strangers,

cold and sad

(hmmm) {vocal swells with emotional vibrato} I find your letters

tucked inside a drawer

Words of a promise we don't make no more

Dust on the pages,

ink starting to fade

Just like the beautiful

plans that we made

{intimate vocal, acoustic guitar only} And the silence is too loud to

bear

Searching for your outline in the chair

Oh, how did we lose the spark we had?

Now we are just two strangers,

cold and sad

{climax with crying steel guitar} Cold

and

sad... Just two strangers...

(ohhh) {gently fading acoustic guitar and cello trail}