After the last time
you shut every door
My calls went hollow like rain on the floor
So I wrote what screams could never keep A truth for hands,
not glass and heat
I loved you quiet, I loved you long
Not for the noise,
but the marrow of a song
You chased the thunder,
I held the flame
I laid my whole world down
And you just looked away
I loved you deeply,
I loved you true
Not for the show,
but the soul of you
If silence is where real things begin
I kept the vigil,
you wouldn't walk in
Your face lit Times Square,
Icon in the night
Not for applause,
but because I saw your light Denmark in December,
gray seas and sky
You stepped in the waves,
I stayed close by
Two steps behind you,
blanket in my hand
Wading with warmth
while you followed the plan You thanked
me softly when the world went wrong
Others came and went,
I stayed with the storm
I loved you deeply,
I loved you true
Not for the show,
but the soul of you
You wanted fireworks,
I brought a flame
Small, steady, faithful,
while I gave my world away
No one outside ever saw the cause
They envied your shine,
not the nights we lost
You gave till I shook through the panic and spin
You'd say,
I'll come back,
then break again
Did you ever
understand a love that
gives its all?
The kind that lays its future down and isn't
scared to fall
Not for the thunder,
not for the prize or fame
Or did you just look past it and never learn its name?