fading hearts

I couldn't believe it was you there with me

held close in your arms where I felt I belong

as we stood together beneath a budding spring tree

footprints in the sand, together happily

that summer when our love burned strong

watching waves fold back into the sea

in a fading autumn light you turned from me

my heart was burning, full of song

but in the tune of bitter melancholy

we can't go back to that dying winter tree

before it all went terribly wrong

now I look to you and you just don't see

I fell away from your perfect harmony

another face mixed up in the throng

desperately seeking the girl lost from me

this is the way it was meant to be

after all this time, now it won't be long

I was never the person you wanted to see

please let me go, please set me free