We were standing on the shoreline
waiting for a moment to arrive
the first light or at least
another quiet dream
of any other kind

You spoke like there was something
you just barely understood
that you were wearing
like lightning just beneath your skin

and I remember you saying
it was a quiet dream to carry

still, it gave us
a real reason to listen

From another perspective perhaps we were mad
but seen with our own eyes we were just hoping
to skate away on the thin ice of a new day
knowing it could break wasn't reason enough
for us to be afraid

Yes, madly perhaps
but at the very least living
it's all too easy to forget?it's not enough
just to survive

I looked at you then, and said ever so softly
"Let your night wait
just a little while"
seeing a thousand midnights bloom
in the way you smiled

Like you thought you were the only one crying
for an innocence lost
not your own, no, that is still not yet done dying
but for those who it got it taken
and at what that cost

It looked a little like you were wishing it away
The pain and the sorrow
but I loved you for it

And to this day I will swear it is reason enough
for anyone about to give up
to believe
just a little longer

I was lost inside a miracle
when you said you thought
you could let it all go

All the great sorrows you’d borrowed along the way
were just little gentle white longings
not the pale blue regret
of the hollow one at prayer
that you used to know

the gamble lost, the last wrong bet
a quiet dream unravelled
by faith lost and winds cold
a wintertime blues
just so heavy on your soul

So there we were
on such an ethereal day
both of us lost in the quiet dream we'd made

chasing the first light over the thinnest ice
madly daring everything to break
one dawn won by a smile
living forever in that look in your eyes

We stopped running last night
We finally made it
Yes, baby.. we made it

We got out