Half a Lifetime

The coffee's getting cold on the breakfast tray You're looking through me in a brand new way Twenty-five years in the blink of an eye Now there’s a coldness under this kitchen sky You didn't stumble or hesitate at all You just stood there leaning against the wall And said the words like you were reading the news While I’m standing here with everything to lose How do you unlove a heart after half a lifetime How do you rewrite the rhythm and the rhyme You say it’s over like a light switch flipped While I’m holding onto a script that’s ripped You’re a stranger with a face I used to kiss I never prepared for a moment like this Half a life built on a solid floor Now you don’t want me anymore I’m looking for the cracks in the weeks before Did I miss the sound of the closing door We were planning the summer and the garden space Now I’m searching for a ghost in your vacant face No warning sirens and no thunder clouds Just a silence that’s screaming much too loud You poured the wine and you set the stage To turn the book back to a blank white page How do you unlove a heart after half a lifetime How do you rewrite the rhythm and the rhyme You say it’s over like a light switch flipped While I’m holding onto a script that’s ripped You’re a stranger with a face I used to kiss I never prepared for a moment like this Half a life built on a solid floor Now you don’t want me anymore My shoes are by the door where they’ve always been But the house is changing from the thick to thin I’m shaking and I’m reaching for a hand to hold But your touch is distant and your eyes are cold Tell me where the man I married went today Did he just vanish or just drift away How do you unlove a heart after half a lifetime How do you rewrite the rhythm and the rhyme You say it’s over like a light switch flipped While I’m holding onto a script that’s ripped You’re a stranger with a face I used to kiss I never prepared for a moment like this Half a life built on a solid floor Now you don’t want me anymoreHalf a life gone in a single breath A quiet kind of living death You don’t want me You don’t love me Just like that, the world goes black