Fading Slow

Fading Slow Mm… There’s a silence I still hear sometimes… Like it never left the room… I watched the room go still that day Time forgot how to move or say Anything that made it feel real Just a weight I couldn’t unfeel You waited there like you always knew When the last of us made it through And I still see it when nights get long Like a scene that won’t move on And I don’t know how to hold it right It comes back in the quiet nights Like a shadow that won’t let go Even when I tell it no And I remember you fading slow Like a light that didn’t want to go All of us there in the same small space Trying to hold what time erased And I swear it changed the air that day Like everything just slipped away And now that moment stays in me Like the tide that won’t leave the sea Same day your mother left before Like the world just closed that door And I didn’t know grief could learn my name Or feel like it’s always the same Now when I think of you, it starts In the quiet parts of my heart And I see that room, that fading light Cut through the middle of the night If I could rewrite the sky that day I’d try to make it stay away But time don’t listen, time don’t wait It just closes every gate And I remember you fading slow But I also feel the love you showed How you waited till we were all there Like you knew we’d need you near And maybe that’s the part I keep Not just the silence, not the deep But how you held on till we came Like you called us by our names Mm… There’s a silence I still hear sometimes… But it’s not all gone… Not all gone…