In a dream long ago,
I went to a place I thought I knew,
I went with a girl I used to know,
My light, my one true love: you.

And in the day's fading light,
I fought for love with all my might,
Held to you with all my strength,
Yet felt a gap of increasing length
Every time I reached for you
And I watched as you melted into night's pale blue.

Falling back in the shadow of an old willow tree,
I held my heart, and set my emotions free.
As I fell for the final time,
I watched the wind blow my love from my mind.

I awoke in the dark, in the cold of night
And ached from want to hold you tight.
I walked through cold, to that place I thought I knew
And amidst wind and fallen stars, I wished for you.

A drooping willow cracked and fell
As the darkness bound me, and condemned my hopes to hell.
The sun rose and I felt so cold
And without you, this world felt so old.

I lost you so long ago
But this pain feels so new.
I can't bear to sleep, because now I know
That my dreams left me when I lost you.

I want to love, I truly do,
But there's not much left after you.
My heart is so cold, so weak, and so small,
I wonder how it even beats at all.

Look at me.
I'm so much less than what I could be,
Because my smile blew away on the westward wind,
And my once happy heart is now badly thinned.

I love you so my dear.
I don't know how I ended up here.
Just one look at your smile, one glance would suffice,
But I lost your love when I gave up on paradise.