It's a quiet night A soft piano plays in the background Of my somber reflection I feel your absence Like the weight of a cold wet blanket And your indifference, it's smothering I try to push it off But it's clingy It doesn't want to go If only I could care as little as you If I could treat you like you don't exist in my mind I might better understand you But then, it wouldn't matter if I did So the point, I guess, is moot I listen to the melodies They draw me in and comfort me Like medicine in my innermost I listen to the melodies They soothe my battered soul They speak to me Bring a more reasonable perspective And I wonder if something better Lies further down the road It's a quiet night My hopes and dreams have long since turned to shadows That haunt me in the darkness A soft piano brushes across my sense of awareness My hands relax a little My breathing slows I listen to the melodies They draw me in and comfort me I listen to the melodies They soothe my weary soul And as they speak to me I think I may feel hope for a new tomorrow My thoughts fade slowly with the music I think maybe This is what it must feel like What it will feel like When eventually my heart Is able to surrender To embrace inevitability And find hope in a new tomorrow When I can finally let you go I listen to the melodies They're drawing me in I listen to the melodies They're letting me know I'm letting you go
