p://www.imeem.com/indiaarie/music/01_PAb2o/indiaarie-long-goodbye/">Long Goodbye - India.Arie

The end has been hanging in air
the smoke as we went up in flames
burning all hope of tomorrow
and leaving little to no trace
of these days we spent like today
history lost eternally
and I just want to hold on
to the memory...

smooth the singed edges
of the snapshots of us
my words captured in mental pictures
I collected in the diary
of my heart inspired in every moment
spent loving you
the whole journey one of the
best trips I've been on
in my life
and I didn't want it to end...

shaking globes of daydreams
watching the magic rain again
as if it weren't permanently now
laying lifeless at the bottom
of an empty wishing well
with all the pennies I could find
cushioning the fall
of what I thought we'd turn out to be
as it descends from reality...

let me at least not
have to watch you pack the bags
box up and divide our
intellectual property accumulated
in conception of ideas and beliefs
filling every corner of possibility
with the work of our devotion
let them collect dust - leave them
I'll send them back to you
when I'm ready to move on too
but for now just be silent
before I ask you to tell me lies
trying to hold back tears
just leave me...