As Still As I Watch Your Grave - Roddy Woomble

I know all the old patterns

Because I live by the sea

And what I translate in water

It won’t come back to haunt me

So cut another pattern

To make a suitable friend of me

And in your illumination is your apology

What we keep of last night while we sleep

It’s what we keep of last night

While we sleep

And I watch your grave

Be written all over your face

On the longest day

When midnight tries to take my place

As still as I watch your face

Be written all over your grave

Should have passed like hours

Passed like years but felt like days

And you live in the shadows

Of the evenings you mislead

But they’re too real to be forgotten

If you choose the right company

And I run each finger through the dust

And only through your hair in sleep

But it’s like the first breath in the morning

And it brings the past back to me

What we keep of last night when we sleep

It depends what we keep of last night While we sleep

And I watch your grave

Be written all over your face

On the longest day

I watched people fight to take my place

As still as I watch your face

Be written all over your grave

Should have passed like years

Passed like hours lost in days

And I watch your grave

Be written all over your face

On the longest day

When midnight tries to take my place

As still as I watch your face

Be written all over your grave

What should have passed like hours Passed like years passed like days