Flicker of the Fading Firelight

When I close my eyes I see The gilded shadows of you and me When I stare into your eyes I see myself with no disguise ‘Neath the ocean waves, so deep I see beyond your eternal sleep Oh the truths you saw that night By the flicker of the fading firelight As you lay there stark and weathered I see that we are forever tethered Understand that below the starry sky Below my mask, I begin to cry You exclaimed far above our toil ‘Till we drove you into the soil Oh the truths you saw that night By the flicker of the fading firelight The truth shrouds in my mouth The shadows of you remind shall never come out You’re through and through righteous Though we have no room in our hearts for rightness We paint our terrors, shield our lies I close my eyes I see you in the flowers I see you in the sky I see you in my tears when they drop from my eye I see you in every picture I’ve found But I can’t catch you now