We Were Almost Forever Darmoir

The dust motes dance in shafts of fading light
Suspending time within this quiet night

I trace the cracks upon the weathered wood
Where promises and shadows still make good
Not spoken loud, but whispered to the grain
A silent language cut from want and strain
The air is thick with everything unsaid
Hanging over us like dust above the bed

And every tick of clock's relentless hand
Washes our tracks away from the sand
We're drifting close, yet living out of phase
Leaving the feel of it in other ways

Oh, catch the echo before it fades away
Like dusk pulling color from the day
We are just whispers in a brittle design
Tangled roots under a split-line
Hold me now while memory remains
Before the silence loosens up the chains
Just breathe and let the moment stay

Your voice, a ripple on a stillness deep
Awakening vows we struggled hard to keep
The guitar strings hum a low lament
For hours lost and time we never spent
It's not the ending that I fear the most
But becoming just another quiet ghost
In your eyes, I see the harder truth
The fragile ruin of our wasted youth

Fractured
Reflected
Connected
Neglected
The space between us isn't void or empty
It's full of every word we never sent

Oh, catch the echo before it fades away
Like dusk pulling color from the day
We are just whispers in a brittle design
Tangled roots under a split-line
Hold me now while memory remains
Before the silence loosens up the chains
Just breathe... and let the moment stay

(Fading out, repeating key phrases softly)
Let it stay
In the amber
Fading light
Quiet night