Keith Hampton: Songs & Lyrics
Never Disappear
(Keith Hampton)
June 1, 2002
Keith Hampton/BMI
from HOPEFIRE (2002)
same old friday evening
and we waste it every week
i meet you at your front door
and we head down to the street
where the bitter winter chill
invades like a cancer in the night
you put up your trench coat collar
and i pull my gloves on tight
so we catch a train to somewhere
it never matters where we go
we just try to spend more time
apart from the pain we know inside
you don't share confessions and
they stay silent on my tongue
so we're never second guessing
how much we revealed
when the morning after comes
but tonight i held your gaze
a bit too long
and in your eyes i recognized
the refrain of an ancient love song
don't you know how long my heart
has been tangled up in make believe?
oh to break the bonds of circumstance
we might move a little closer to free
there's a ghost behind your eyes
some spirit that dwells in times gone past
and i wonder how many others loved you
who you never could love back
so i go before you saddened
for you leave me with no peace
and even if i'll never be your precious one
you'll always be precious to me
and maybe i've been foolish
but these days each breath i breathe
makes a testimony to a love
that faded away like some forgotten dream
though i'm powerless to kiss you
i gain strength each time you're near
and i need you to promise
even if it's a lie
you're never
never gonna disappear
same old friday evening
and we waste it every week
what would i give for another?
what would i say if we should speak?
see the spirit in your eyes is gone
as you think of me and laugh
and i become the last to love you
though you never
never loved me back