Desperate Hands (Radiocut)

Remember when time felt infinite and slow?
Each morning waking up beside you here
Now empty coffee cups and mornings glow
And silence where your laughter used to stay
I reach across but find just cold bed sheets
The calendar still marks that fateful day when all our future
Plans met their defeat, and everything just slowly slipped away
Time runs like water through these desperate hands
No matter how I try, I can't make you stay
I can't make you stay
Your books still rest upon the windowsill
Half-read, abandoned, gathering soft dust
The garden that we planted on the hill
Now overgrown with weeds and autumn's rust
I walk these rooms like someone half awake
Each memory a picture on the wall
Too many chances I was scared to take
Too many words I never said at all
Time runs like water through these desperate hands
No matter how I try, I can't make you stay
I can't make you stay
And now I understand what we had then, what foolish
Pride made me pretend that I could live without
Your touch, without your smile, without your love
If I could turn back every clock, unlock each minute, every lock
I'd run to you without a thought and say the words I never brought
I like these letters that I'll never send
Each one begins with, "I was wrong, my friend." The ink flows like
The time we let slip by, until the words, like memories, run dry
Time runs like water through these desperate hands
No matter how I try, I can't make you stay
I can't make you
I can't make you