These Days

Standing under misplaced skies
What was shining in your eyes
It's so much harder to define
These days

There's no echo coming back
All my words have gone astray
It feels a dozen worlds away
These days

Not like this
Don't let it end this way
Still so much to be and do and say
Not like this
Don't let it end this way
Remember how you felt just yesterday

Patiently I waited
While you slipped away
Without a word between us
Silently you slipped away

Not like this
Don't let it end this way
Still so much to be and do and say
Not like this
Don't let it end this way
Remember how you felt just yesterday

I see you for the first time now
Young and unafraid
But in my head the pictures fade
These days