You're staring at an empty frame
The window glass still holds my breath
You touch it as a cold breeze sighs
Empty bottles, long-cold stabs
Your last visit's fading away
Your skin, the beauty as you breathe
Shadows flicker, dimly lit
Corners whisper, you leave the key
Your face beneath the blackened hair
A secret flickers in your eyes
The love is hollow on your face
Tonight you sleep by another's side
I'd find your old shadow, smoke my last cigarette
I would step in the rain-washed traces of your step
I would search for the clues that you were there
Follow it through miles of changing winds of despair
The vapour of your breath, the blink of your soul I'd follow
The demons in the corner of your eyes I'd follow
The life we should have had I would follow
No matter how vague, no matter how hollow
But it was just a dream of one mad hazard day
and you are far, somewhere in the night... so far
so far away
It is made clear when dawn is here
A blank face stares in the window pane
All that would linger is gone
Surreal flat, empty, strange and vane
You leave the stairs we danced on once
You close the gate and run away
Into an unknown, endless night
We sweared but ain't survived a day
Your steps are teardrops in the night
Vanishing in a distant land
As they die on the highway
Childs' dreams drawn in moving sand
Your face beneath the blackened hair
A secret flickers in your eyes
The love is hollow on your face
Tonight you sleep by another's side
As the moon lights up the woods
You're standing 'neath an elder tree
Raindrops kiss pearls on diamond roads
It happened but ain't meant to be
You take your coat you take your boots
Our dreams our smiles our life you drop
You're hitch hiking in the night again
Waiting for a car to stop
Your steps are teardrops in the night
Vanishing in a distant land
As they fade on the highway
Child's dreams drawn in moving sand
Your face beneath the blackened hair
A secret flickers in your eyes
The love is hollow on your face
Tonight you sleep by another's side
I'd find your old shadow, smoke a last cigarette
I would step in the rain-washed traces of your step
I would search for the clues that you were there
Follow it through miles of changing winds of despair,
The vapour of your breath, the blink of your soul I'd follow
The demons in the corner of your eyes I'd follow
The life we should have had I would follow
No matter how vague, no matter how hollow
But it was just a dream of one mad hazard day
and you are far, somewhere in the night...in a flat... so far
so far away
I buy a scotch, give up the fight
Counting hours, cruising the night
But in a lonely room 'cross all the nights
There hangs a lonely photograph.
Her steps are teardrops in the night
Vanishing in distant land
As they die on the highway
My dreams are sank in moving sand
Her face beneath the blackened hair
A secret flickers in her curve
Tonight she sleeps by another's side
I know... I know that she'll never return.