We were tied through fear In the hope we'd grow Your retreat from home could end Where we slept beneath the side of my bed In an empty house I shared with my friends When the hope fades south And the steps caved in When the embers hold below And remind me of you coming home To wash all the smoke from your clothes But I don't mean to say That all my love had turned away But I just need you for the weekend Or a while Are you right with god? Was he on your side? As the days shrink back again Turn to quiet, sink into dread Shading all the thoughts in my head So, I speak with death Will he work with time? To the days longer in light He picks her from the back of my mind Blots her out and changes my sight And with the sense from you That all my love had turned away And I believed that for these weeks And for a while I don't mean to prepare for this I could never say why I don't need this now But I just need you for the weekend or a while