Lying next to you
We don't say a word
Enjoy the silence
Caress your soft skin
Breathing gently
You smile in your sleep
I close my eyes
Take it all in
In case it's the last time
Live for the moment
That's what you'd say
If you were awake
And not blissfully dreaming
The sounds and smells
Linger in my mind
When I open my eyes again
Night has turned to day
Autumn leaves are falling
And the sensations I felt
Are now a world away
Maybe you should know
When I lie on my own
That sometimes I wish
I was still next to you

Flashing before your eyes your life unfolds
Racing by, reaching out for something to hold
Faster than the speed of thought
It crumbles to dust, all that you've sought
Our lives are like footprints in the sand
At the mercy of the changing tide
You can deny it but you can't hide
Buried deep within you the truth resides
Searching for order amongst the chaos
Without it you'd be alone and lost
Trying to outrun your destiny, no matter the cost
All this I know, the burden weighs down on me
But there's more to life than this, I also see
I'm no genius, I'm no brave fighter
Just looking for the candle, to make the darkness a little brighter

New dawn breaks across the sky
The sunlight's creeping in through my curtain
The first rays of light hit my eyes
A better day is coming, of that I'm certain

Knowing what I know today
I've seen sunshine, and I've seen rain
No use in being brought down by dismay
There always has to be another way

Stormy clouds aren't here to stay
Now I've finally found my way

The sky's not always bright and blue
Can't deny this, I know it's true
When there's nothing around but wind and rain
I keep going, I have to make it through the pain
On the other side, I know the sun will shine again

Inside
I remember the touch of your skin
Inside
I remember you lying next to me
I guess I thought it was meant to be
Oblivious to what everyone else could see
All it took was for you to call my name
Didn't understand I was just a pawn in your game
Now I realise that I'll never be the same
You've changed me in ways I can't explain

Inside
I think of all the harsh words I said
Inside
I wonder if it still troubles you, at the back of your head
I hope you're far away, moved on to new shores
You've left me feeling like I've never done before
I've asked for forgiveness, but only in my dreams
My guilt overflowing, gushing in streams

One day maybe I'll let you see
Just what's brewing inside of me
Only then will I be set free

Grasping for the light high above
Trapped in the icy depths below
Crying out to whoever's there
Caught in a situation we can't escape
A landscape of agony and despair

We've come too far to turn back now
Changed beyond recognition by our struggles
Our friends and families cannot understand
The fury, the pain, the sorrow they see
But the can't know the rush and the thrill
They'd never forgive, or feel what we've felt

We set out as strangers in a foreign land
And returned home even stranger still
We ventured deep into the recesses of hell
We suffered, we endured, but we survived
The cost for this was higher than we'd thought
Burdened by the darkness we'd overcome
A part of our souls until the day we die

Eyes gaze wearily across the horizon
Tired and burdened by what they have seen
Cold sun creeps across the wilderness
Ancient ruins torn from their foundations

Walking slowly down an endless hallway
A thousand eyes turn and stare
For all my strength and will, my only creation
Towers above me, a monument to despair

In a colourless room, walls are closing in
Constricting and tightening, every day
Can't escape, this is all I know now
Can't escape, nowhere else to go now

Lying underneath the evening sun
Listening to the birds up in their trees
At once the world is frozen in time
Problems swept away by the summer breeze
Hoping we stay this way, forever young
Before winter brings with it a bitter freeze

Times like these life seems so simple
Just you and me, not a care in the world
Youthful and free, our lives laid out before us
Before the world comes bearing down on our shoulders
Before our hair turns grey and our skin begins to wrinkle

After all the summers may come stormy weather
I know this feeling cannot last forever
Clear blue sky replaced by pouring rain
As long as you're with me, I really don't mind
The sun will still be shining, deep inside