Clouds

White on the window, gold on your skin Soft as the night when you pulled me in You came in quiet, light as smoke A hand on my waist, a half-lit joke The room went pale, the city thinned The world stayed out, you wandered in Your hair caught blue from the dying sign Your breath moved slow and close to mine I felt the floor give way somehow Like all of the dark was weightless now Up where the streetlights lose their name You held me there inside the haze No hard ground left for us to find Just silver air and open sky We were light as air that night Drifting slow above the light Skin to skin and eye to eye High enough to lose the sky Hold me where the world is gone Soft and pale till morning comes The moon looked thin against the glass We watched the hours blur and pass Your fingers drew across my arm A little spark, a little harm You said my name like it could heal Like something lost could still be real I let that sound fall over me Sweet and low as a summer sea Up where the streetlights lose their name You held me there inside the haze No hard ground left for us to find Just silver air and open sky We were light as air that night Drifting slow above the light Skin to skin and eye to eye High enough to lose the sky Hold me where the world is gone Soft and pale till morning comes If I fall, then fall with me Past the roofs and sleeping streets Let me fade into your arms Far from noise and far from harm If this breaks with dawn below Stay till all the white light goes We were light as air that night Drifting slow above the light Skin to skin and eye to eye High enough to lose the sky Hold me where the world is gone Soft and pale till morning comes White on the window, gold gone thin Still feel the night you pulled me in Somewhere above the waking town I close my eyes and drift back down