We walked this way a year ago You kept your jacket round my shoulders I told you everything back then Even the things I’d never told you sober This spring I asked you for a walk The way I used to ask you in the summer We made it all the way down to the sea With half a step between us and no further Tonight I stopped beside the wall You asked me why I’d worn this dress I said I’d saved it for a night with you And this was all the night we had left Goodbye, my love, the light is still ahead The sea is turning copper at the edge I spent so long trying to get back to you I’d almost forgotten there was somewhere else to go Goodbye, my love, the light is still ahead I hear my footsteps now I hear my footsteps now You reached to lift my dress off the ground The way you’d lift my coat above the water I said, “It’s all right, let it down” And watched the fabric settle on the stone You said my name the way you used to say it Low enough that only I could hear I turned so you could see my face And said goodbye while you were still right there I’ll miss the way you’d walk ahead Then slow without a word I nearly slowed for you tonight My feet remembered first Goodbye, my love, the light is still ahead The sea is turning copper at the edge I spent so long trying to get back to you I’d almost forgotten there was somewhere else to go Goodbye, my love, the light is still ahead I hear my footsteps now I hear my footsteps now The light is still ahead
