A Thousand Years

You are warm in the night. If you are warm, as the sea. As deep as a shadow, just out of reach. You swoop like a swallow, just past my fingertips. And you know I can keep a secret, whisper in a partial way I can see you stand there, whisper soft and clear. You stand so tall and say to me, “You're just a baby,” and I feel a thousand years away. I tell tales I should never have told you at all. I have memories now I want you to hold. You're in love with the river that brings the rain to the sea. If I were the water, would you do the same for me? I'd be the smoothest operator, until the tide pulls you in. Move like a current, I wish that I could feel it. Why do you stand tall? And you say to me, “You're just a baby,” And I feel a thousand years away. I tell tales I should never have told you at all. I have memories now I want you to hold. And when I hold on to you, and you hold on too I just can't let you go. You are eternal, and I am time taken away You are the winter, and seasons change, melting away. I wish you would stay. I'll convince the tide not to take you away. You are cold as a mirror, as cold as the snow. You are as real as a nightmare, what I've come to know. You fall like an arrow, you are cute yet dangerous You laugh like a memory That never crosses my lips Will never cross my lips.