Five Steps From The Doorway

Five steps from the doorway
You laughed, without a clue
Said: The night feels so weightless
Like someone trying, to break through

Four candles on the table
Everything, just as planned
Your dinner still sits warm there
And a silence, I don't understand
The record player turns softly
Guiding us through the dark
And you dance across the living room
With no intention, to stop
Three turns through the shadows
Twice you held me close
And in a moment far too small
Your eyes, finally, closed

And I carry you around the room
Just like we always did
Without the weight upon your shoulders
Without the world again
Your body in my arms now
So light, almost gone
And time itself holds its breath
So it won't disturb us

You're weightless now
So weightless now
So weightless
You're free now
So free now
So free
Nothing calls you
Nothing calls you, back
Nothing keeps you
Nothing keeps you, here

You said: I've never felt this calm
Almost smiling as you spoke
As if somehow you had found
A place where you belong
And I followed every footstep
Afraid to wake you up
From a dream so full of peace
I couldn't, let it stop

They spoke your name through doorways
Cold voices calling out
Was he the last one with her?
Trying hard, to figure out
I answered softly
With no rush to explain
I left her where the hurting ends
Where no one can reach again
They call it madness
Say I went too far
But none of them have ever felt
The emptiness you left behind
I stayed, I stayed
I stayed until the end
I stayed, I stayed
I stayed, my friend
No pain
No pain
No pain

One step away from the doorway
And the night comes holding me
If there's a place above this world
You'll learn, how to fly
And I remain where light is fading
Where no one comes to see
You're weightless now
So weightless now
So, weightless