Hymn to Her

Sleepless nights, restless days Memories of the gentle ways Love locked out looks for a home A place to find a shelter from the storm She said you are the air I breathe The life I love, the dream I weave Without a word, with just a touch Now I realize you meant so much @hymntoher

Oh, take this longing from my tongue Whatever useless things these hands have done Let me see your beauty broken down Like you would do for one you love My poverty revealed I would like to try your charity Until you cry, "now you must try my greed" And everything depends upon How near you sleep to me @hymntoher

I am asking for the moon Let the world have their sun Let it all fall to ruin You are my favorite one When it's all gone, I love you When I'm done, I love you @hymntoher

I feel alive in the city you despise And wait for the day When you come riding on by Oh-ho, ho-ho Seems so hard just to be If it matters, you complete me @hymntoher

But the last day of summer Never felt so cold The last day of summer Never felt so old @hymntoher

Love is not a friend, it's not a brother Love is not a Wendy-Moira-mother Love has turned me into many others Now I guess I'm just Just a lover @hymntoher

Broke my heart to leave the city I mean it broke what wasn't broken in there already Thought of all my great reasons for leaving Now I can't think of any It's true it was a hard time that I've come through It's made me thankful for the blues @hymntoher

Hurricanes take, that's what they do Just like I'm gonna steal a piece of you Trust me, I'm a thief @hymntoher

She said, if you had life eternal Can you hear me say your name forever? Can you see me longing for you forever? Would you let me touch your soul forever? Can you feel me longing for you forever, forever? @hymntoher

Can you help the hopeless? Well, I'm begging on my knees Can you save my bastard soul? Will you wait for me? I'm sorry, brothers, so sorry, lover Forgive me, father, I love you, mother @hymntoher

Then a call from me as a boy Reality was all but gone He said, "Life, it keeps replacing joy And I don't know where I belong" He was lost in an alien sadness Don't remember where it came from He said, "I am full up of an otherness" He hung up before I could pass on But if I could see it through a softer lens It wouldn't mean that it hurt any less It's not what I hoped for, I don't wanna pretend But maybe I'll find, maybe I'll find A different kind of happiness 🆕️@hymntoher

We could say we didn't mean it We could dig up all the names We could brag about our future Talk about our leaving day We could have a small reunion For all the people that we knew We'll all get drunk and celebrate Here's to me and here's to you @hymntoher

Patient you stayed by my side for years I know I owe you more than I have Given the words that will make you leave There's nothing left here, no one to save @hymntoher

I get you, you're not like anything. Do you hear me? Just be here Don't let me get in the way of you finding everything What was it? The story you told me? Why am I so hard to be around? Here at the approach of the end of everything @hymntoher

She asked me if she was pretty Well, it's clear that the girl's a fraud There's really no way of winning If in their eyes you'll always be a dumb blonde And she cried over nothing So there was nothing I could do to stop Her from cutting Her beautiful blue hair off It looked like cotton candy And just as quick to get licked away Last I heard she was living With a boy who acts his age And I guess I'll just miss her Even though she isn't even really gone But things are just different Ever since she cut her blue hair off @hymntoher