darkness is a real place - with the choir of my dream

There are those who don't know
Darkness is a real place
Some live in it's shadow
Dreaming of it's embrace
But when it is standing
By your bed, stroking your chin
It changes you forever
There is no second skin

Wish I could tell you nothing was in vain
That we all are winning
And now you're almost gone except the pain
The pain keeps on living

With only songs to keep us hanging on
And the memories that you made, but then forgot

There are things we long for
But we never really do
We cling to them although they are
A vision untrue
See the ocean, green blue
See our children growing tall
Standing in the ice cold shimmer
Of that waterfall

Wish I could tell you that it's all the same
That no one's a winner
Now you're drifting on, it's time the rain
Calls for a swimmer

With only songs to keep us hanging on
And the memories that you made, but then forgot
The merciless fear in losing someone
With only songs to keep us hanging on
The longest farewell caries on
The greatness and the littleness of one
(Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh)
Oh, the songs will keep us hanging on (keep us hanging on)
Echoing in our minds and in our homes
The good times and the bad will play on
The good times and the bad will play on

Oh, the songs will keep us hanging on
Memories fade but new days will come
We'll never be the same when you are gone
Oh, the songs will keep us hanging on (keep us hanging on)
Memories fade, but new days will come (new days will come)
We'll never be the same when you are gone