The Mute

I'm lighting a fire

Under my feet

Going looking for something

in the middle of the street

where the lights shine the brightest

because my quiet is too hard to beat

I cleaned up the day after drifting away

Made sure that my voice was neat

But singing of others is all I can do

I shiver at the thought of your heat

Now time has come

For this girl to be someone

Dress in her hand

just fresh on the run

Going  somewhere 

where the air is so clear

and her words can find somewhere to come from

Pennies, and cowboys

asleep in my heart

Your eyes and the moonlight

can't tell them apart

You're just a boy with the world on his back

And I'm just a film with an awful soundtrack

And my trains arrived

and your eyes are dry

I didn't even cry

Until I said goodbye 

I'm too quiet to tell you

I'll miss you

I always wonder

when I'm thinking out loud

Would the world have stopped spinning

If I'd shouted it out?

If I'd sang you to sleep,

And I'd promised to keep you around?

If I'd sang you to sleep,

and I'd left in the morning

without making a single sound?