Goodbye Ryan

(Verse 1)

The porch light flickers in the cooling air

I’m looking for a ghost who isn’t there

The silence in the hall is getting loud

I’m tracing faces in the passing cloud

We had a thousand plans we didn’t keep

Now I’m just walking through a restless sleep.

(Chorus)

Goodbye Ryan, I hope you’re in heaven now

Finding the peace that you couldn't allow

The stars look different since you slipped away

Into the gold of a permanent day

Yeah, goodbye Ryan, I hope you’re in heaven now.

(Verse 2)

I kept your jacket just to feel the weight

The irony of time and twist of fate

I’m talking to the walls and to the moon

Wondering why the rhythm stopped so soon

But if there’s a light beyond the velvet blue

I hope it’s bright enough to carry you.

(Bridge)

They say that memories are all we own

But it’s a heavy harvest to be sown

I’ll keep the laughter locked behind my teeth

And let the world go on underneath.

(Chorus)

Goodbye Ryan, I hope you’re in heaven now

Finding the peace that you couldn't allow

The stars look different since you slipped away

Into the gold of a permanent day

Yeah, goodbye Ryan, I hope you’re in heaven now.

(Outro)

Just a whisper in the wind tonight

Goodbye Ryan, into the light.