Piano Song
They always talked about her hands
Weighed down by a wedding band
All the lines he couldn’t understand
How she was elegant like you
She had an octave plus two
You asked to play the ivories
Hands shaking on the keys
Weighed down by your disease
They wouldn’t move the way you wanted to
Can't hold onto what you're bound to lose
And as the final weeks of august came
Haunted as the keys decayed
Through our fingertips we felt you fade
And the dreams came with the night
The hopes of black and white
Every wrong move that we made
Was just a half step away
My hands tremble beneath your weight
All the melodies that they could make
All the memories of past mistakes
How we covered them in glue
Peeled it off until our skin was smooth
When all that's tangible keeps us apart
Im weighed down by your phantom heart
Hold my chest the way you used to
Just to remind it what to do
And like the ghost at the end of your bed
Who weighted until we left
Left your body when she took you hand
Did it feel the way it used to
Did you lighten as she lifted you
And the dreams came with the night
The hopes of black and white
Every wrong move that we made
Was just a half step away