Walking in your shadow

[Verse 1]
Your boots still sit by the kitchen door
Laces tied the way you left them
I try to hear your voice in the floorboards
Only silence answers when I question
I walk the road you used to drive
Past the field where you taught me shifting
Replay your laugh
It blurs each time
Like an old tape always skipping
[Chorus]
I’ve been walking in your shadow
On a path you couldn’t stay
Reaching out for what I can’t hold
Words I’ll never hear you say
I’m done drowning in the sorrow
Let your darkness end with you
I’m still walking in your shadow
But I’m walking toward the blue
[Verse 2]
Photos fade on the hallway wall
Smiles stuck in their own weather
I mouth your name
Then lose the sound
It slips right through like a feather
Some nights I sit in your old truck
Hands on the wheel where yours were resting
I let the quiet fill me up
Till my heartbeat does the confessing
[Chorus]
I’ve been walking in your shadow
On a path you couldn’t stay
Reaching out for what I can’t hold
Words I’ll never hear you say
I’m done drowning in the sorrow
Let your missing swallow through
I’m still walking in your shadow
But I’m walking toward the blue
[Bridge]
You left a weight I couldn’t carry
I tried to wear your hurt like skin
Now I leave flowers by the headstone
Then turn around
Breathe in
[Chorus]
I’m still walking in your shadow
But the sun is on my face
I forgive the part of you that
Couldn’t ever find this place
I will laugh and I will stumble
I will love and break in two
I’m still walking in your shadow
But I’m living for me
(and a little for you)

Rock