I can't remember if it was snowing

or if the night was even cold

All I could see were your beautiful eyes

and that soldier sadness in your face

You looked straight at me

and I looked straight at you

like coming home for the very last time

There was nothing for us here we needed to find -

just each other

And it all went into that long sweet fall

in that half-light of love that should have always been

Sighs here in this shadow of heaven

filling up the last of the night

And then they lined up all around us

and just ran us straight into the ground

Angry for losing their senses

Hurt with that thing that they could not feel

And then the stars hung their heads

and the broken moon dropped tears

all over our holy ground

until nothing could hold back the flood

And it all went into that long sweet fall

and their half-opened eyes couldn't take the light

as they ducked into the shadows of heaven

just beyond our sorrow burning there so bright

And my Zaz and I went into that long sweet fall

Laying back into the arms of forever

Carried up over all the shadows of heaven

to rest where worlds spin so softly in unbroken skies

Now every step I take is just a long sweet fall

like the tears running down my cheeks

I know the midnight is lifting in heaven

as we rise to make a morning for our love again

I swear I heard your little feet run across the kitchen floor

but the dog still sits alone looking at the door

I swear I smelled you on the pillow, felt you move next to me

but it's just the curtains sailing up on a midnight breeze

tommy for Zaz always