Music and lyrics by J Stephen Roberts

 

When you step out

Beneath the evening pale

Wreaths and streaming veils

Hanging in the churchyard

Lies dreaming on the ground

Petals in her hair

I don’t recall just where

So long ago we were here

 

Return to the grass

Where you walked when your feet were new

The sky goes dusky blue

Here she was walking with me

These things all gone to stone

Are wax as the hills grow old

A body in the earth is cold

Somehow the flicker burns still

 

This place she should know

These halls were where she walked

Moves through doors all locked

The house is filled with strangers

Her hours here are years

When she calls out their names

Her voice is out of phase

Leaves scattered on the gray lawn

 

Walk with me past these rocks

To where the river’s flow runs out

So still I hear my doubts

Hunting a pathway home again

Hands on the clock they slow

This moment lingers here

Tomorrow disappears

What I am is here today alone