Sleepwalker

I lived my life alone before you

And with those I never succeeded to love

I grew so accustomed to that solitude

I fought you; I didn’t know how to give it up

Before you had I ever known love

Or had I only known misuse

Of the power another had over me

I crossed the country and I carried no key

Couldn’t I look up at the stars from anywhere

And sometimes I did, I felt ancient

But still I sought peace and it never came to me

They often spoke as though I’d been set free

But I traveled only in service of my dreams

I stood before them all; I was a sleepwalker

Couldn’t hold my misery down, not even for you

It bore me on all the places I ever gone

I grew so accustomed to that kind of solitude

But I long for you now even when you just leave the room

Of all the roads in the cities that I passed through

Of all of the eyes that I searched inside

The one sense of permanence I felt was mine, only beneath your gaze