After Dark

Writing a letter to you like you're a foreign pen pal
 Talking to you like I've never not known you
 Smiling at you with my heart nailed shut
 Time-induced-healing has not been enough
 I swear you'd always need me
 I swear you'd always see me
 As the same blood that runs through your veins
 Don't come looking for me after dark
 I cannot bear to see your footsteps leading nowhere
 Roots of the ancient tree have changed
 I can't make out your face and what you're saying sounds the same
 Hanging photo examples of golden moments
 Your memory left in pages I wrote things down
 Fizzy telephone calls generous to silence
 Empty spaces and forgotten traces of you
 I swear you'd always need me
 I swear you'd always see me
 As the same blood that runs through your veins
 Don't come looking for me after dark
 I cannot bear to see your footsteps leading nowhere
 Roots of the ancient tree have changed
 I can't make out your face and what you're saying sounds the same
 You're not dead to me because you'll never be
 You're as close to gone as distance will allow
 Though that might seem fine, you're gone all the time
 Don't come looking for me after dark
 I cannot bear to see your footsteps leading nowhere
 Roots of the family tree are gone
 It seems so wrong but I can't force someone to change
 Don't come looking for me after dark
 Don't come looking for me after dark
 Don't come looking for me after dark