Lost Love

You came like rain on dry ground
My weary heart fell in love with you
With everything you are
I felt you filling up my silence

Your hands once held my shaking
As if they were made to stay forever
You slipped further away, day by day,
Disappearing more and more from my life


And I kept reaching out
For what had already gone
Hoping you would turn around,
Hoping you’d find your way back to us


My great love, my life
My great love, my life
I tried to hold on to us
But you let us go

My great love, my life
My great love, my life
I loved you so much
Too much, I know that now


Your laughter, your love
I still feel them deep inside me
I miss those beautiful moments
I long for them

I talk to the empty mirror
As if you might answer any moment
But the house keeps all its secrets
And I keep mine deep inside


And I kept reaching out
For what had already gone
Hoping you would turn around,
Hoping you’d find your way back to us


My great love, my life
My great love, my life
I tried to hold on to us
But you let us go

My great love, my life
My great love, my life
I loved you so much
Too much, I know that now


Maybe love can break its own bones
And still try to stand
Maybe all I’ve learned
Is how to let go with open hands

I don’t curse what we were
I don’t blame the sun
I only miss what we once were—
The “us” I thought would last forever


My great love, my life
My great love, my life
I tried to hold on to us
But you let us go

My great love, my life
My great love, my life
I loved you so much
Too much, I know that now

My great love, my life
My great love, my life
And I can still hear and feel
Your afterglow