Lyric

The city sleeps beneath the trees

The wind remembers what we leave

And somewhere in the morning light

I hear your voice across the night

I walked the streets we used to know

Where little gardens used to grow

The windows held the fading sky

Like open eyes that never cry

Your height was marked beside the door

A little heart, a year before

I touched the wall, I closed my eyes

And heard your laughter in disguise

I kept the coat you used to wear

As if your warmth was waiting there

I had a thousand things to say

But time had carried you away

After we left, the world grew green

The quietest place I’d ever seen

But every leaf, each falling star

Reminds me of just who you are

If all the lights have disappeared

If no one knows that we were here

I’ll keep your name inside my heart

Even worlds apart, we’re not apart

I found the room beneath the stairs

Your paper moon, your teddy bear

A drawing of a house in blue

And three small figures, me and you

You wrote, “We’ll see the stars someday”

I read those words and turned away

I built a life of steel and stone

But couldn’t bring my daughter home

Then through the static, faint and slow

A little voice began to glow

A memory, a dream, a ghost

The one I missed the very most

Daddy, are you there tonight?

I saved a little star of light

You said we’d watch the sky turn blue

I waited, but I couldn’t find you

I’m here, my love. I’m here at last

I’m sorry I was chasing past

I thought the world could wait for me

I never knew what time could be

Daddy, why are your hands so cold?

You look like someone very old

Will you sit beside me now?

You don’t have to leave somehow

I’ll sit with you until the dawn

Even when the signal’s gone

And if you want to see the trees

I’ll let you go, my little breeze

After we left, the world grew green

The sky became a sea of dreams

And though I cannot hold you tight

Your voice still finds me in the light

If every road has reached its end

If time won’t let us meet again

I’ll keep your name inside my heart

Even worlds apart, we’re not apart

Daddy, will the flowers know

The little girl who loved them so?

Every flower, every tree

Will hold a little part of me

And every time the wild birds sing

You’ll hear the love I couldn’t bring

After we left, the world grew green

And nothing stayed the way we’d seen

But love is not a place or time

It’s your small hand still holding mine

If one last morning comes to pass

If all our memories turn to grass

I’ll say your name into the blue

And let the world remember you

Daddy, look… the sun is here

I see it, love. I’m right here

Then don’t be sad… the trees will grow

I know, my love. I know

After we left…

The flowers still grow