Blowing Out Your Candle
Why do you always leave so soon?
Why can't you sit and stay?
Explain, you always leave, always flicker
And finally blow out the flame.
I tried to save your precious life
I held so much, I never let go, I tried.
I cried, I just can't find the words to tell you
When you're no longer mine.
I stroked your hair, I kept your tears
Each so sweet, kissing your face in wonder.
I grasped your hand but your fingers slipped
You continued going under.
You told me yourself to wait for a miracle
And I've been waiting, I promise you, I wait.
I sit in the snow and I long for a glance
Of your long-gone, pale sweet face.
I couldn't take the silver from your fingers
And in the end, that's all that ever mattered.
Frozen inside, so weak and fragile and mine
Yet always so broken and shattered.
Why do you insist on leaving me?
Why can't you sit and stay?
But you're fading, flickering, sighing, dying
You're blowing out your candle today.
Why can't you sit and stay?
Explain, you always leave, always flicker
And finally blow out the flame.
I tried to save your precious life
I held so much, I never let go, I tried.
I cried, I just can't find the words to tell you
When you're no longer mine.
I stroked your hair, I kept your tears
Each so sweet, kissing your face in wonder.
I grasped your hand but your fingers slipped
You continued going under.
You told me yourself to wait for a miracle
And I've been waiting, I promise you, I wait.
I sit in the snow and I long for a glance
Of your long-gone, pale sweet face.
I couldn't take the silver from your fingers
And in the end, that's all that ever mattered.
Frozen inside, so weak and fragile and mine
Yet always so broken and shattered.
Why do you insist on leaving me?
Why can't you sit and stay?
But you're fading, flickering, sighing, dying
You're blowing out your candle today.