[Intro]
[clean electric guitar playing rhythmic chords, melodic bass guitar enters]
(adlib echo): **Mmm, yeah** (x2)
[Verse 1]
(breathy male vocals)
October comes back like a threat and a promise
It's the month I dread the most
But it's also when I feel you closest
Like the air gets thin enough
For your presence to press right up against my heart, yeah **"Yeah, yeah"**
Two years have gone without you here
And it still cuts like yesterday
Three Christmases with your stocking empty
Still sitting there like you might come back someday
[Chorus- full band enters, driving drums, gritty vocal delivery]
Oh, October's got his hands around my throat again
Cold wind crawling through my chest
Then last night you walked back into my dream
And there, baby girl, I swear it felt like you never left
(male gospel-style backing vocals enter)
You didn't speak about the ending
Didn't tell me where you've been, yeah **"Oh"**
You just held me like you used to and I felt you breathe again
[Post-Chorus]
(male soaring falsetto vocals)
And I woke up crying, crying
Couldn't stop even if I tried **"NO!"**
Thought the dream was lying, baby
'Til I felt you lay across my side **"OH!"**
Haven't seen your face in so damn long
Only hear your giggles in the dark sometimes
But last night you came back to me
And it broke me and saved me at the same time
[Verse 2]
[bass guitar slides, organ swells]
(male slowing shattered)
You were older in the dream this time
But you still climbed right up on me
Like you remembered every second
Even if your memory didn't speak
[Chorus]
(male intense vocal grit)
And I held you like a miracle **"Oh"**
Like a moment I ain't heard
Wishing time could freeze around us
Wishing dreams were bridges we could return
'Cause the world keeps spinning without you
But my heart don't understand
And it acts only like it knows exactly where I am
[Outro]
(male climax with high-register belting and backing vocal layers)
And I woke up crying, (echoing) **crying**
Couldn't stop even if I tried **"NO!"**
Thought the dream was lying, lying
'Til I felt you lay across my side
Haven't seen your face in so damn long
Only hear your giggles in the dark sometimes
Last night you came back to me **POND**
And it broke me and saved me at the same time
[music swells then decrescendos]
And it's wild how the same night
Her mom had her own goodbye.....
Like the universe was whispering....
Threads between our lives..
Two hearts torn by October
Two souls reaching for their gold
Maybe dreams are little windows
Where the ones we love get close
I woke up crying, crying **Yeah, Yeah**
But maybe that's alright
Maybe love ain't got an ending
Dreams keep us alive
Three Christmases without you here
But I still feel you in my spine
Last night you came back to me
[music fades to solo electric guitar]
And for a moment, **baby**, you were mine
PrinceShawn