Ashes

Intro

(Mm-mm-mm)

(Oh-oh-oh)

Verse 1

You left your shadow on the hallway wall

I painted over it, it showed through all

The nights got longer when your name went dark

Still found your fingerprints across my heart

You swore forever like it meant something

Now it is just smoke from a forgotten thing

I kept the pieces, thought they would make me whole

But broken glass just cuts the hand that holds

Pre-Chorus

I watched the fire eat the photographs

Thought

Thought it would hurt less when the flames went past

But memories do not burn that fast

Now all that is left is ashes

Floating where your promise used to be

Ashes

Falling like the snow you never seen with me

You took the spark, the light, the matches

Turned our little world to black and grey

Now all that is left is ashes

And me learning how to walk away

Verse 2

The city knows the route back to your place

My hands still turn the wheel without a trace

Of logic telling me you are not my home

Funny how the heart gets lost alone

I heard you are happy, heard you are doing fine

The kind of story everybody buys

But if you are glowing, why did you dim my sky

Why did you make forever sound like a lie

Pre-Chorus

I watched the fire eat the photographs

it would hurt less when the flames went past

But memories do not burn that fast

Chorus

Now all that is left is ashes

Floating where your promise used to be

Ashes

Falling like the snow you never seen with me

You took the spark, the light, the matches

Turned our little world to black and grey

Now all that is left is ashes

And me learning how to walk away

Bridge

Some things do not shatter when they break

They fade so slowly you do not notice

Until you are standing in the ruins

Talking to the ghosts of what we were

And I hate that I still miss you

When missing you just makes it worse

Chorus

Now all that is left is ashes

Scattered where I buried every dream

Ashes

Drifting through the spaces in between

You were the fire, I was the oxygen

Guess that is why I disappeared in flames

Now all that is left is ashes

But tomorrow won't remember your name

Outro

Ashes in the wind tonight

Ashes out of sight

Ashes where you used to be

But not what is left of me