Amelia, Please Let Me Sleep

[Verse 1] Four in the morning Ceiling cracking like old paint prayers Shadows stitched along the bookshelves Ink still wet on all my fears I feel the mattress sink beside me No footsteps on the wooden floor Your perfume Cold and wrong Amelia Breathing through a locked door [Chorus] It looks a lot like her But it’s not you My Amelia My love I can’t move Fingers on my throat As gentle as a vow My Amelia My love Please let me sleep now (please let me sleep now) [Verse 2] Curtains pinned like funeral flags Moonlight sharpened to a blade Latin notes on crumpled paper Every saint I ever betrayed You tilt your head the way you used to When I lost my place in a line Same small scar above your eyebrow Eyes too empty to be mine [Chorus] It looks a lot like her But it’s not you My Amelia My love I can’t move Hands that used to hold Are anchors as I drown My Amelia My love Please let me sleep now (Amelia, please) [Bridge] If I say your name again Will you take this weight away Or press your borrowed face Closer to mine and stay I’d give back every poem Every margin where you bled For one dull Dreamless midnight And a stranger in your bed [Chorus] It looks a lot like her But it’s not you My Amelia My love I can’t move Kiss me like you did Before the grave Before the vows My Amelia My love Please let me sleep now My Amelia My love Please let me sleep now