Before and After

I remember the morning the world turned to gold A story of color I'd never been told before you The air was just something I breathed A garden of winter dormant and sheathed But you touched my pulse you woke up the storm You taught me a language I'd never have known I was a statue just waiting for heat Then I heard the rhythm of our matching feet I was a ghost then you gave me a name And lit up my soul with a beautiful flame You were the first one to make me feel alive The reason I bloom the way I survived But now that you're gone the hunger is new I'm a cavern of silence once filled with you You were the spark now you're the degree Of the hollow and empty inside of me The coffee is bitter the sunlight is grey I'm going through motions to get through the day It's harder to be lonely when you've known the light It's darker than dark in the middle of night I used to be fine in the quiet and cold Before I had us and a hand I could hold Oh I'm waking up to a world without sound I'm an anchor that's lost and can't find the ground You gave me the life then you took it away And left me with nothing but yesterday You were the first one to make me feel alive The reason I bloom the way I survived But now that you're gone the hunger is new I'm a cavern of silence once filled with you You were the spark now you're the degree Of the hollow and empty inside of me I was alive once I remember how it felt Now it's just empty so empty So empty