Dead Relics

I hold your picture in my hands And watch the colors fade

I whisper softly to your face Afraid I’ll lose your name

Your perfume on an empty shirt Still feels like you are here

I close my eyes to find you

But you’re already disappearing

Every little thing you left behind Keeps pulling me back through time

Your necklace, your letters,

your photograph Are pieces of a life I can’t get back

I touch the places where you used to be

And memories come rushing over me

I see your smile,

I hear your voice Then everything disappears again

(DON’T FADE AWAY!) I’m terrified I’ll wake one day And won’t remember

your face So I hold these broken pieces close Like they could

make you stay

We’re dead relics of a dying loooove

Still reaching for what never waaaas

I would give anything to feeeeel you agaaaain Before your memory slips

away (DON’T LET ME FORGET YOU!) Your fingerprints are on the glass

Your handwriting is wearing thin I read the words a thousand times

Just to hear you speak again Your favorite things are everywhere But

none of them can breathe They’re little pieces of yesterday That keep

what’s left of you in me

(BUT I CAN’T HOLD ON!)

I’m terrified I’ll wake one day And won’t remember your face So

I hold these broken pieces close While they slowly lose their shape

We’re dead relics of a dying loooove Still reaching for what never

waaaas

I would give anything to feeeeel you agaaaain Before your memory slips

away (DON’T LET ME FORGET YOU!)

If I lose your voice If I lose your eyes If I

forget the way you laughed What part of you survives?

If these relics disappear Will you disappear with them?

If I can’t remember yesterday Will I lose you all again?

I keep your clothes I keep your notes I keep the things

you left behind But every piece I hold onto Makes another memory

come alive (AND IT’S KILLING ME!)

(I SEE YOU!) (I HEAR YOU!) (I FEEL YOU IN EVERYTHING!)

(BUT YOU’RE GONE!) And I’m scared… That one day… I won’t know

you

anymore.

We’re dead relics of a dying loooove Still reaching for what never

waaaas I would give anything to feeeeel you agaaaain Before your memory

slips away (I’D GIVE ANYTHING TO REMEMBER!) Every photograph…

Every word you left… Every piece of you… (DON’T DISAPPEAR!)

I hold your picture in my hands And watch the colors fade…

(Please don’t become a memory.) (WHAT WE BURIED!) If all I have

are dead relics… I’ll hold them till they fade.