since then

the music
doesn't
give like it used to

I can't
listen
listen away my troubles

into dreams of futures
or present alterations

I can't
love my way into bliss
without another half

if
the sun
don't rise don't matter

the clouds
the rain
or shine
my middle
is searching for mud

fresh and forgiving
the stuff that can make
a dead plant turned seed
a plant again

but instead
the rock
is just a bit
more solid
since I failed
or my head a little less tender
when it hits ground
hard

I can't listen away my troubles

the rock is
just a bit more solid
since I failed

the moon brighter
but colder
and distant as ever
for all the attention
I have left spend

I love you
like no other
and yet
that's not enough
to undo
the steps
already cast

all
but the final plays
to deal

vows wear
down
quickly
as the years are replaced
with disappointments

but I've still have a love
and it is so much more
than I act as though I deserve

too many
walk
away from life
with less

and you'd
think that be enough
to kick the melancholy right off my ass

yet insecure moments
dwell
I fear I am
about to get a due
reprisal

but then I get saved
by one of the brief lapses
where I catch us forgetting
smiling at each other
over some diversion

and I see the eyes so precious
and still in love beneath the struggle
we are bond up in

let us
live
that love
again

oh
let us
that love
that brought us here

let us live again
i love you