I built us wings from fragile things Thread and borrowed feathers You laughed and said the sky looked warm Like it was calling forever I should’ve known the way you loved Was never slow or quiet You kissed me like a storm rolls in Beautiful and violent And I kept trying to hold the air Inside my careful hands While you were already dancing Somewhere I couldn’t stand Oh, honey, you flew too close to the sunlight While I was praying the wax would hold Now every morning tastes like smoke and salt wine And this old house feels cold You were burning gold I was built to hold But love don’t listen To what it’s told The ocean still remembers you I hear it through the window Every wave comes back the same Soft and low and sinful You wanted life in every drop Every dangerous feeling I wanted Sunday afternoons Something safe to believe in Maybe I loved you much too gently To survive your kind of fire Maybe you loved me much too wildly To ever stay inspired Oh, honey, you flew too close to the sunlight While I was begging the night to wait Now every song inside this empty apartment Arrives a moment too late You were burning gold Too young to grow old And love don’t listen To what it’s told Now I wear black silk evenings And pour two glasses still One for the girl who wanted heaven One for the girl who never will And sometimes when the room goes quiet I swear I hear you laugh Like you’re somewhere above the city Still flying too fast Oh, darling, you flew too close to the sunlight And I was never built that brave I tried to love you down to earth But you belonged to waves You were burning gold I was growing old And love don’t listen No… love don’t listen To what it’s told So if there’s a place where reckless souls go Leave the window open wide Maybe one night you’ll drift back to me On wax and wind and tide
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