Vast and awful The night hardens between us I dig deep, pulling up lines To cleave through a thousand miles Ghosts of shattered memory Rise and pour through me like a river Of all the days of my life I knew you Here beside me Stretching rainy riversides From Daniel Street to Dublin Watching me from the edge of the light To the streets and parks of London A cry in an empty room A run down an open hill A spirit that defies every ill And I loved you for that And in the sweeping tide of time With the surging bank of despair I'd hear the voice of your eyes In the knowing silence And that alone would make me smile I carried more than your love That's not what I was wary of I could live with any amount If I could learn to live with myself Love, what have I become? Did I pass through your life blindly? Outside, black ribbons of rain Fall like an answer