Don't Wake Me Up

I heard your voice before the light
Soft as dust in a closing sky
You turned and smiled like nothing changed
Like all those years had slipped away

I followed you through empty rooms
The air was warm, the colors new
For a moment I forgot the cost
For a moment you were not lost

Then the ceiling came into view
Morning pulling me from you
The room returned, the colors drained
And silence took your place again
I closed my eyes to hold the thread
Back to the words you never said
But daylight pulled me from the dark
And left me with your fading spark

I wake up reaching for a ghost
Holding on to what I almost know
For a second you're still here
Then daylight makes you disappear
I wake up carrying your name
Like a photograph washed by rain
Every morning starts the same
I lose you again

The sheets are cold, the city's grey
The dream dissolves but somehow stays
A trace of you inside the room
A fading scent, a borrowed moon
And the world begins to move
While I'm still somewhere with you

I wake up reaching for a ghost
Holding on to what I almost know
For a second you're still here
Then daylight makes you disappear
I wake up carrying your name
Like a photograph washed by rain
Every morning starts the same
I lose you again
I lose you again
I lose you again

You were here
You were real
For a little while
Then the sun
Touched the room
And took you with it