Dwell

Okay, yesterday
I see where you are heading
And you can feel me fretting
In my mind and on these strings

If there's a way, yesterday
For longer, you to linger
While these notes caress my fingers
You could stop a while and listen to me sing

For the clock that we've unwound so far
Is the sigh coaxed from a dying star
The atoms in my heart came from suns and will return
And as I live this loving life
I fear the sting of temporal knives
Cauterizing dreams in a cold and sterile burn

And this yesterday we dearly love
Was no promise given from above
Just a passing flight of fancy, emergent from our minds
So today is here and all that's near
While we sing about these autumn fears
The spring may be our lover
But the winter needs its time
So we let the snow fall gently in our minds

You're no friend, yesterday
You're a tether I don't need
And your spiritual greed
No longer feeds upon these memories

You are banished, yesterday
For nostalgia is your solace
And when old pictures call us
They sink our ship too deeply in these seas

For the clock that we've unwound so far
Is the sigh coaxed from a dying star
And the void inside our denouement makes my stomach churn
And as I live this loving life
I see my one who sees his wife
Through eyes ablaze with embers
That never fail to burn

And this yesterday we dearly love
Was the punchline in this cosmic shove
Hurtling through the cosmos, that forms an edgeless line
So today is here and all that's near
While we sing about these autumn fears
The spring may be our lover
But the winter needs its time
So we let the snow fall gently in our minds
We watch the snow fall gently when it's time