One more time

One More Time

(A slow, haunting ballad)

I still see your shadow in my room,

Laughin' soft in the late afternoon.

Your sweater still hangs by the door,

Like you're comin' back, but you don’t anymore.

I pour two cups out of habit each night,

Yours stays full, mine never feels right.

I talk to the walls, they echo your name,

But silence is colder when it stays the same.

I just want one more time,

One more look in your eyes.

One more kiss in the dark,

Before the world pulls us apart.

If I could turn back the clocks,

I'd hold you 'til the hands stopped.

God, I’m broken, but I swear I’d be fine…

If I could have you…

One more time.

I walk past the park where we danced in the rain,

Now it's just puddles and memories and pain.

I swear I still feel your hand in mine,

But it's just the wind — playin’ tricks on my mind.

All of your things, I can't throw away,

They're pieces of you that beg me to stay.

Everyone says I'll heal someday…

But they never loved you, not in my way.

I just want one more time,

One more night in your light.

One more laugh through the tears,

To hold you close and quiet the fears.

If I could rewrite our song,

I’d keep you where you belong.

Right here, beside me, in this life of mine…

If I could have you…

One more time.

Maybe in dreams, maybe in death,

I'll find you again in that last breath.

But till then I’ll carry this ache,

And smile for the world, though my soul breaks.

I just want one more time,

One more spark in the night.

One more chance to make it right,

To say “I love you” and mean it right.

If this is goodbye, if this is the end…

Just know I’d do it all again.

Every joy, every cry, every climb…

If I could have you…

One more time.