backlit

though I never planned to say goodbye to you
it is happening
it’s happening, it’s all true
things we just took way too long to understand
it all slipped through our distracted hands
and I never thought this day would ever come
now I wear a new smile
and a new calm…

and you can’t distract the day from coming back
there’s a time to fade
there’s a time to be a wreck
I just picture you as you look away
but today is not that day…

though the way ahead may be backlit
and this moment tastes more bitter than it does sweet
there’s a tomorrow I just can’t wait to meet
and a firmer ground beneath my feet

and you can’t distract the day from coming back
there’s a time to die
there’s a time for regret
I just picture you as you look away…

I never planned to say goodbye to you


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references: strangeland (keane), on a day like today (keane)

am colin-clegg: vocals, guitars, bass, drums, keyboards