A Thousand Days

In the darkness
of a man
There's a place where you began
To escape the lightness
you had known
In the marrow of your bone

Even deeper
than a flood
Even closer than your blood
All the nameless hunger
of a fire
Burning empty with desire

A thousand days
A thousand nights
A thousand ways
to say goodbye
Another time
You can't reveal
The thousand ways
you feel

In the velvet
where you sleep
Is the part of him you keep
With the other ruins you have left
To protect your happiness

A thousand days
A thousand nights
A thousand ways
to say goodbye
Another time
You can't reveal
The thousand ways
you feel

Can you give everything you take
Knowing what is broken for your sake
What if your mistake is what it takes
to make you whole

In the dark thunder of release
Will the flood of wonder never cease
Will you find the peace in all the pieces
of your soul

What you love is what you learn
When there's nowhere to return

In the distance
of a man
When you come to understand
You forgive the sadness
and forget
All the sweetness of regret

A thousand days
A thousand nights
A thousand ways
to say goodbye
Another time
You can't reveal
The thousand ways
you feel