When the Love is Gone

The clock ticks slow like it's mocking my pain

Shadows stretch long as they call your name

A picture on the wall

It's all that remains

When the love is gone

The room turns cold

Every corner whispers secrets untold

When the love is gone

The truth feels wrong

And every step feels like it don't belong

The wind outside plays a mournful tune

Streetlights flicker under a faded moon

I search the silence but it don’t answer soon

Was it the words I didn’t say

Or the ones that came out all the wrong way

When the love is gone

The heart beats slow

Like a train on tracks with nowhere to go

When the love is gone

The sky turns gray

And even the stars seem to drift away

The bottle’s dry but it won’t heal

This empty ache I can’t conceal

The truth hits hard

It cuts

It peels