In the lamplight of yesterday
we waited for dawn
Silently pacing in our minds
the trials of the day before
and the mending of the next
Whatever fight we put up wasn't enough
and the apologies were band-aids to gashes
In the lamplight of yesterday
we waited for dawn

My voice was hoarse
and yours was too
If I remember correctly
which I never do,
You were crying as I spoke,
but I spoke anyway
I was thinking as I spoke,
but I spoke anyway
And all along we knew the consequences
Every word held its own dagger
I think I stabbed you thousands of times

We decided we couldn't sleep like this
You couldn't mend without apology
and I couldn't apologize without sleep
We were stuck on a spool of questions
Every one more twisted and curved than the last
We begged for it to all unravel
just to find we were more empty because of it

We can't wake up if we never slept
we can only continue in waking
and I can only remember how warm this bed was
before your shoulders made it so cold
I've never felt so alone with you inches away from me
I'm more far away from you now
than I was before I knew you

I waited for the windows
to sing me a song of sunlight
A breaking of darkness
and maybe old moods
They say light brings forgiveness
so I hope the sun brings you back to me
and drives my hatred out of your heart

In the lamplight of yesterday
we waited for dawn
In the lamplight of yesterday
I waited for dawn


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