I will haunt the edge of your happiness

[Verse 1] At the edge of sleep I become moonlight Gathering softly around your soul You never see the silver beside you Still every breath pulls me closer home I leave no shadow across your doorway No warmth beneath the sheets where you lie Only a longing without a body Only a love that refuses to die [Pre-Chorus] And if I was never meant to touch you If I was only meant to know Then let me be the quiet light That follows everywhere you go [Chorus] Perhaps heaven made me out of longing So I could learn what devotion means Perhaps love doesn't need a body Perhaps it lives in the space between I could love you without being chosen I could love you and let you be free If I can only stand at the edge of your joy That's close enough to heaven for me [Verse 2] Someday you'll wake beside someone made of morning Someone whose hands can answer your hands The world will place a ring upon her finger And give her everything I never can She'll hear your laughter across the kitchen She'll know the warmth of your sleeping face And I will be the hush behind the curtains A little ghost that time cannot erase [Pre-Chorus] And maybe you will never know me The way that I have always known you But love is not made less eternal Because a dream cannot come true [Chorus] Perhaps heaven made me out of longing So I could learn what devotion means Perhaps love doesn't need a body Perhaps it lives in the space between I could love you without being chosen I could love you and let you be free If I can only stand at the edge of your joy That's close enough to heaven for me [Bridge] So let me remain here Where distance becomes a prayer Where sorrow ripens into sweetness Because I know that you are there I'll string every tear into pearls for you I'll bury every jealous thought I'd rather watch your whole world blossom Than make you smaller just to be loved If you cannot hold me Let the moon carry my tenderness If you cannot hear me Let the wind confess Everything I never told you Everything I never could I would rather haunt the edge of your happiness Than be the reason you lose it for good [Final Chorus] Perhaps heaven made me out of longing Perhaps that's why I still remain A bride without a hand to hold me A little ghost outside your windowpane And if another wears the ring I once imagined you giving to me I'll bless the hand you're holding Even if that hand isn't me I could love you without being chosen I could love you and let you be free If I can only stand at the edge of your joy That's close enough to heaven for me [Outro] I won't ask the rose to become mine I only want to be near its blooming To love it without plucking a petal To leave it exactly as I found it And if loving you means never having you Then I'll make something holy of the ache I'll love the rose I'll love the thorns I'll love you And ask for nothing In return