The pain that you suffer

     in the time you have lost

returns like a story

     on the winds where you tossed

and whispers so sweetly

     in your mouth full of sighs

and drains you so empty

     of the tears in your eyes

Tomorrow is a shadow on a road that is not there

Today never happened

because I could not smell your hair

So write it up and down

     cut a cross upon my chest

and make a bed of thorns

     to lay my shattered heart to rest

Tie my soul to heaven's gatepost

     a tattered banner in the stars

to keen of love just taken

     beyond healing, beyond scars

Tomorrow is a shadow in a night I cannot bear

and yesterday can't make me

because I cannot smell your hair

My time is washed behind me

     and in front there is no light

I stand in my same footsteps

     where you left me on that night

I'm just a hollow echo of the song we used to share

and our angels all stopped singing

when I could not smell your hair

so burn my corpse a daybreak

send the smoke to heaven's air

all the angels started dying

when I could not smell your hair

tommy for Zaz

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