Shadows On The Water
Walber Costa
The window shakes with midnight rain
A tired Moon calls out my name
And all the roads I used to know
Have turned to rivers dark and cold
I hear the silence in the hall
Like distant echoes from a wall
And every word we never said
Still spins around inside my head
Oh, time moves slow
When there's nowhere left to go
Shadows on the water
Drifting out to sea
Every broken memory
Comes flooding back to me
And I still hear your laughter
Somewhere in the storm
Like a ghost inside the piano
Keeping my heart warm
The candles burn like fading stars
Their trembling light reveals the scars
Of photographs and empty frames
Where love once lived without a name
The cello cries behind the night
Like shattered wings learning to fly
And every note becomes a prayer
For all the dreams no longer there
Oh, hold me close
Before the last light goes
Shadows on the water
Drifting out to sea
Every shattered piece of us
Still washes over me
And I still feel your heartbeat
Inside the falling rain
Like a choir in the distance
Calling me again
If I could turn the sky around
I'd pull the stars back to the ground
And build a world from what remains
Beyond the sorrow and the pain
But the river keeps on rolling
Through the ruins of our days
And the piano softly trembles
As your shadow fades away
Shadows on the water
Floating through the dark
Every lonely melody
Still carries who we are
And when the morning finds me
Broken by the dawn
I'll still be here beside the silence
Singing to the gone
The rain lets go
The night breathes slow
And somewhere far beyond the gray
You drift away
You drift away