I trace the edge
Of a promise on the ceiling
White cracks
Blue sky
Both so near I feel them
My hands leave ghosts
On a window I can’t open
Your voice
A thread
In a room that’s barely spoken
Mirage
I see it
I see it
Just one step away
And I still can’t reach it
Fragile hope
Like sunlight on the glass
Burns on my face
But it won’t let me pass
Mirage
I chase you till I fade
I’m running in place
In a dream I never made
Calendar walls
Full of cities I’ve imagined
Cheap flights
Big talk
Every plan a moving target
I script my life
In the margins of a deadline
Erase
Redraw
Till the paper turns to landmines
Mirage
I see it
I see it
Just one step away
And I still can’t reach it
Fragile hope
Like sunlight on the glass
Burns on my face
But it won’t let me pass
Mirage
I chase you till I fade
I’m running in place
In a dream I never made
Is it better
To believe the distant glimmer?
Or to kill it
Just to breathe a little thinner?
Every “almost”
Fills my lungs like broken air
I’m still standing
On the wrong side of repair (oh)
Mirage
I see it
I see it
Just one step away
And I still can’t reach it
Fragile hope
