Embrace

Absence sharpens; presence strengthens

You can't ever leave complete

Sometimes free but never freedom

Dreams destroy your sleep

Caution's fatal; would be winner

But the reckless risk their kingdom

Better had and lost they whisper

Doubt them when you weep

I couldn't listen

It might shatter should I hear

So alone then and you're so near

Purest wisdom of the foolish

Only folly of the wise

Like a mousetrap entered freely

Then escape denied

Experience will count for nothing

Tender look becomes addiction

With this ghost that all have whispered

But so few have spied

I bathe in ashes

Where the water used to flow

Consumed by echoes

Search the rubble for my soul

I will not be your ghost

Not while I stand, I live, I breathe

Against this distance

Flesh and blood your eyes could see

Do you ever miss the you you were

When you were with me?

I miss the me I was with you

Is there another form of together?

Another way of together?

(Guitar solo)

Could we make another form of together?

Forge another way of together

To save the likes of us?

On a violent, wind-racked night

With the sky as dark as secrets

Drive until you hear the ocean

Crash against the rocks

Climb out to the farthest boulder

Stand surrounded by the fury

Arch your back; throw out your arms and exhale

Kindred with the wind

Fiber of a storm

Dissolve into the spray

Far away I will await you

'Midst a sea of pounding memories

In my never-ending storm I feel your scent arrive

Will be open once again

To you pressing soft against me

Take your breath into my chest

Recognize this heat inside

I will close my arms around

Tightly, ever so tight for life; for love

I will embrace