Silence in the Grey

The sky hasn't changed its color since you left

Just a permanent shade of steel and regret

I count the cracks in the ceiling above

Trying to remember the texture of love

The seasons keep turning grinding the stone

Turning the houses we knew into bone

There is no map for the road that we walk

Only the echo of ghosts when we talk

I saw a bird flying over the line

Unafraid of the danger ignoring the sign

I envied its wings and the air in its lungs

While we speak in riddles and silence our tongues

The letters I wrote you are turning to dust

Buried beneath layers of iron and rust

I don't know the border I don't know the side

I just know the places where innocence died

They told us the morning would bring us the light

But the sun is a searchlight that cuts through the night

It exposes the ruins it scorches the eyes

And burns every truth we wrapped up in lies

Now I am standing in silence in the grey

Watching the footprints getting washed away

We were the ember that started the fire

Now we are caught in the tangles of wire

Does the wind carry my voice to your ear

Or does it just vanish and disappear

I'm waiting for dawn but the night is too long

And I've forgotten the words to our song

The history books will not mention our names

We are the fuel for their flickering flames

A number a shadow a pause in the breath

A delicate dance between living and death

I try to imagine the warmth of your skin

But the cold is a razor that's cutting within

The future is broken the past is a cage

And we are just trapped on the very last page

They told us the morning would bring us the light

But the sun is a searchlight that cuts through the night

It exposes the ruins it scorches the eyes

And burns every truth we wrapped up in lies

Now I am standing in silence in the grey

Watching the footprints getting washed away

We were the ember that started the fire

Now we are caught in the tangles of wire

Does the wind carry my voice to your ear

Or does it just vanish and disappear

I'm waiting for dawn but the night is too long

And I've forgotten the words to our song

If I could tear down the walls with my hands

If I could reverse the flow of the sands

I'd trade all the glory the pride and the flags

Just to find you amidst all these ruinous rags

Can you hear me

Can you feel me

Or are we just shadows

Now I am standing in silence in the grey

Watching the footprints getting washed away

We were the ember that started the fire

Now we are caught in the tangles of wire

Does the wind carry my voice to your ear

Or does it just vanish and disappear

I'm waiting for dawn but the night is too long

And I've forgotten the words to our song

The words to our song

Just silence in the grey