Tom Rosewater

You

You've had a sad year

left behind old love

living with new fear

and summer

keeps breaking her promises

the love notes, high hopes

just slipping away

from you

you

let me in on bad days

said that I remind you

of how slowly a heart breaks

when time

hits you with your guard down

it packs up your suitcase

it begs you to leave town

to find a place where life is free from shame

and fear and sweat and pain

from city streets where no one knows your name

I see love

I see a picture

I see the burning, burning heart that lights our way home

I see a lake

that's as far as an ocean

and I know, I know, I know, I know

I know

I'd run away with you

I'd run away with you

I'd run away with you

Sophia, where did you go...

where did you go?

Love

grant me more than protection

oh love

grand me more than escape

I am young

I may never know better

than to run

from the light

of your grace

your love

you

you gave up an old ghost

and went where the land broke

to never come home

I said "love is an island"

you said "this is your lifeboat"

I said I never knew

how to let

you go

to find a place where life is free from shame

and sweat and tears and pain

from city streets where nothing's left to gain

I see love

I see a picture

I see the burning, burning heart that lights our way home

Oh, in the city

that's as big as an ocean

oh I know

I know, I know