Hide Away

I saw the fire the day that I met you crackling

Felt the flames up close and licking my face

And it was too hot, too hot to bear

And it ate up, ate up all of the air

We felt the ground shifting slowly underneath

The land pulling apart beneath our feet

So we wait for, wait for the rain

And we try to invent games to keep ourselves sane

Now we settle on the edge of the world

We just left behind and now we settle down

And watch from afar as our world comes to an end

And we hide away

And waste away all of our afternoons

And hide away

And wonder how many afternoons we have left

I lost the fire a year after I lost you

It fizzled out

It got too hard to keep stoked and healthy

I feel too, old too stiff to move

There seems no point, no light without you

Now we settle on the edge of the world

We just left behind and now we settle down

And watch from afar as our world comes to an end

And we hide away

And waste away all of our afternoons

And hide away

And wonder how many afternoons we have left

You were slipping away

And there was nothing I could do about it

And you were getting worse every day

And all I could do was watch and wait

You would try to smile through it all

But sometimes you couldn’t manage that

And I was no help at all

And I'm sorry that in the end

There was nothing I could do

And I'm sorry you had to watch

Your world crumble down around you

And I'm trying to forget

The last time that I saw your face

But I think that it’s the one memory of you

I can’t seem to replace

Now I settle on the edge of the world

We just left behind

And now I settle down

And watch from afar as the world comes to an end

And I hide away

And waste away all of my afternoons

And hide away

And wonder how many afternoons I have left

And I watch and wait

As I see everything falling down all around me

And waste away as the water dries up

And the fires roll in

And I don’t mind, or wouldn’t if you were still here beside me

We’d hide away