Lay Me Down

I don’t know why you wait for me,
When it was all a lie
That is, until we said goodbye.
We were seventeen,
It didn’t mean a thing.
It didn’t mean a thing...

But take my hand,
Would you care for this last dance?
We’ll pretend there was something there.
Is anybody there?
Just a cemetery’s silence,
Your lips moving, but without a sound.

So close your eyes to Yesterday,
As she cries ‘Don’t go, don’t go, don’t go,
Don’t leave me for tomorrow…’

Now lay me down,
I’ll admit, I knew all along
So lay me down,
This is anybody’s song.
Would you believe I wrote it just for you?
And you, and you, and you...

Now the paint's peeling off the walls
And the cracks are growing as I watch them
A candle flickers, still casting your shadow on the wall.
It's not so bad,
Now it's dead and empty.
Empty of light, empty of sound, empty of you.

So close your eyes to Yesterday,
As she cries ‘Don’t go, don’t go, don’t go,
Don’t leave me for tomorrow…’