Shimmering Silver

I was waiting for a moment alone

Sat beside you when you got home

I took a breath and you took out your phone

So I just did the same

I just did the same

I tried to be the simple answer

I tried to be the ground for you to stand

I'm trying to know what’s out of my hands

Change the song to whatever you like

I'm too tired to change your mind, so

Turn it up if you’re feeling inclined

To wander to the sound

Wander to the sound

The distant rustle of a woman undressing

Who could’ve kept you but kept you guessing

Another Sun that didn’t say it was setting

When it called you outside

Any loving and helpless tune

Will be old before it’s halfway through

And any light I leave on for you

Will be dim next to the Moon

Who am I next to the Moon?

‘Cause I swear I caught you stealing glances at shadows

Drifting off on the back of a half note

I’ll never know what it was that you had so

Why would I try

But I can just see it through your memory’s filter

Singing back, all in shimmering silver

Like there is nothing alive that could fill your

Heart with such light

If I could only make you talk in your sleep then

Maybe I’d know the ocean you’re keeping

You never look me in the eye when you’re dreaming

I tried to be the simple answer

I tried to be the ground for you to stand

I'm dying to hold what’s out of my

In the arguments I write for us

About the things I know we’ll never bring up

I always ask if I can only be

What you want when I am gone

Will I haunt you when I'm gone?