LAST LIGHT ON EARTH

Last light on earth
Don't let it go unsaid

The station clocks have all gone dark
Your voice breaks through at three percent
You say the bridge beside the river
I hear the years in what you meant
I leave the platform with the others
And walk against the homeward line
For once I know exactly where
I should have been spending my time

No perfect speech, no second ending
Just one thing I should have said

Last light on earth, let it be your face
Not another hour that we throw away
Last light on earth, put your hand in mine
I don't need forever to stop wasting time

I bring the coat you left that winter
I couldn't give the thing away
I tell myself it's only weather
That makes my fingers shake this way
Then see you coming past the railing
No screen between us anymore
You take the coat but keep me nearer
Than pride has let us get before

Last light on earth, let it be your face
Not another hour that we throw away
Last light on earth, put your hand in mine
I don't need forever to stop wasting time

And if tomorrow finds us?

Then ask me in the morning

When we don't need a reason to be scared?

That's when I need you there

Last light on earth, that's what we thought we'd see
Now the sun is coming; will you stay with me?
Last light on earth, or a thousand more
We can't leave this love the way it was before

Last light on earth
First honest morning