After Dark

Writing a letter to you like you're a foreign pen pal

Talking to you like I've never not known you

Smiling at you with my heart nailed shut

Time-induced-healing has not been enough

I swear you'd always need me

I swear you'd always see me

As the same blood that runs through your veins

Don't come looking for me after dark

I cannot bear to see your footsteps leading nowhere

Roots of the ancient tree have changed

I can't make out your face and what you're saying sounds the same

Hanging photo examples of golden moments

Your memory left in pages I wrote things down

Fizzy telephone calls generous to silence

Empty spaces and forgotten traces of you

I swear you'd always need me

I swear you'd always see me

As the same blood that runs through your veins

Don't come looking for me after dark

I cannot bear to see your footsteps leading nowhere

Roots of the ancient tree have changed

I can't make out your face and what you're saying sounds the same

You're not dead to me because you'll never be

You're as close to gone as distance will allow

Though that might seem fine, you're gone all the time

Don't come looking for me after dark

I cannot bear to see your footsteps leading nowhere

Roots of the family tree are gone

It seems so wrong but I can't force someone to change

Don't come looking for me after dark

Don't come looking for me after dark

Don't come looking for me after dark