Burning Slow

I watched the color leave your face

A slow fade from this familiar place

You traded warmth for a synthetic spark

And walked alone into the heavy dark

(how did we lose the way) First it was a secret you

could keep

Then it was a shadow in your sleep

Now the walls are closing in on us (closing in)

I held your hand but you were already gone

Chasing a ghost from the dusk to the dawn

The chemical tide swept you out to the deep

And left me with secrets I promise to keep

Your eyes became a stranger's home

A crowded room where you were all alone

I watched the decline,

the bitter theft

Until there was nothing of my lover left

(nothing

left) Then came the silence,

the final cold phone call

The weight of the gravity,

the end of the fall (no,

no, no) I held your hand but you were already gone

Chasing a ghost from the dusk to the dawn

The chemical tide swept you out to the deep

And left me with secrets I promise to keep

Just a ghost in the dark (mmmmm)