It's time that I confess: I must have loved you

 

I watch the Western sky
 The sun is sinking
 The geese are flying South
 It sets me thinking

I did not miss you much
 I did not suffer
 What did not kill me
 Just made me tougher

I feel the winter come
 His icy sinews
 Now in the fire light
 The case continues

Another night in court
 The same old trial
 The same old questions asked
 The same denial

The shadows close me round
 Like jury members
 I look for answers in
 The fire's embers

Why was I missing then
 That whole December
 I give my usual line:
 I don't remember

Another winter comes
 His icy fingers creep
 Into these bones of mine
 These memories never sleep

And all these differences
 A cloak I borrow
 We kept our distances
 Why should it follow I must have loved you

What is the force that binds the stars
 I wore this mask to hide my scars
 What is the power that pulls the tide
 I never could find a place to hide

What moves the Earth around the sun
 What could I do but run and run and run
 Afraid to love, afraid to fail
 A mast without a sail

The moon's a fingernail and slowly sinking
 Another day begins and now I'm thinking
 That this indifference was my invention
 When everything I did sought your attention

You were my compass star
 You were my measure
 You were a pirate's map
 A buried treasure

If this was all correct
 The last thing I'd expect
 The prosecution rests
 It's time that I confess: I must have loved you

 

 

Ghost Story