I've sat through a thousand other sunsets in my life

They've all been beautiful but this one is for you

It's warming the air around us while the darkness sets in

You are still alive and so am I for the time being

It's gotten hard for me to write and color lost its glow

But the night took you away and left me no place else to go

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If you'd come back to life, you'd find a den of wolves at my door

Asking if that pretty girl is coming around anymore

You're more than a painting ever conveyed to our eyes

More beautiful than the ivory on old piano keys

I never thought the world was a stage but now I see

It was meant to display you, the unrequited, and me

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Crushed under the weight, a skeleton rusting at its hinges

I am worried that these wolves will take you away from me

And I'm in no condition to fend them off with my bare hands

When they're reaching for yours even though you're not there

This is where the fangs dance electric, where moonlight goes astray

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Why don't we walk a little ways until the atlas gets changed

And a place we knew becomes a graveyard or a stage

I barely know the sound of your name, but I'm trying

There is only so much a man can find in his own heart beating

Sometimes I fear it's your footsteps leaving

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And I wake up to find I was always alone

The scavengers gnawed until they finally hit bone

I wear the crown of a fool with bad taste

Until I found you and this tired life changed

I'll see you at night in the caves of that dream

Only then will it makes sense, or so it will seem

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I'd have asked the ocean to spare us but it owes me no favors

I guess this is love and these must be its labors