The First Promise

Where there’s nothing between us but our breath

I won’t let you down

There are songs in you that I haven’t heard yet

So bird-like let them out

Turn your collar up to cold

Bury your feet in the fallen snow

and Let your eyelids softly close

For winter is barely beginning

When you lay down beside me in our bed

I want nothing more

There are dreams of you careening around my head

Fragile as sparrows

Shut the whole world out tonight

As you lay there bathed in a pale blue light

Let your eyelids softly close

Winter will never get in here

If you wake up with nightmares in your head

I will chase them off

There’s a place where you and I will be perfect

Not far from here

So I bare my chest & say

Nervous as I am, I can’t look away

You’re a portrait of the future

You’re a picture in a frame

You’re as precious as the black pearls

That your mother gave you on your birthday

And oh, you are a lighthouse to me

Where there’s nothing between us but our breath

Where there’s nothing between us but our breath

Where there’s nothing between us but our breath