ALL THE REASONS

it's quiet now without the sound of you breathing

life into this dusty aging house

but in the end I figured out I had invented all the reasons

we would still be together now

dusk always seems to hang in the sky

now that your light isn't mine

all the healing left with your final goodbye

and the solitude shows me the confinement of time

around and around and around we went

trying to make a home of the time we had spent

so somehow tell me now where the love all went

tell me now what the promises all meant

I'm not sure how I really feel without you

here in my Neverland that's lost it's childhood

I'm having doubts, disbeleiveing what I was sure we made true

wanting to know that our years together left what closeness should

now it's not a whole life I'm left with living

there was something in the the ways you believed

that my faults never needed forgiving

and how you never doubted what you thought we achieved

I think the reason why when I think of you I still hold on

is that I can't feel I'm part of the world where you've gone

and now my bold hopes have withered and withdrawn

and somehow my whole heart still hasn't moved on

I'm not sure now what I feel without you here

to save me

but I'm sure I'll never live a whole life after watching love disappear

and take away all that you gave me

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