Once a Year lyrics

The curtains draw the light from a day that didn't see you And the silence of the house is an ocean that swallowed me too Your side of the bed is cold, yet it still holds your trace I keep your pillow like a captain guarding the last safe place I walk through the rooms, a phantom with nowhere left to roam Searching for your voice in an echo that insists on not coming home But when the Moon erases the Sun and the city finally sleeps I close my eyes and feel your warmth that my memory keeps It is the only moment when this yearning calms my soul And I find you again, making me briefly whole But the rest of the year is just dust, just sand slipping through Until the day the calendar makes the time return to you Folded umbrellas, an old note, your favorite worn-out tee They are small daggers that cut short this incomplete life of me I remember the sound of the rain and the melodies you would invent Of the imperfect chords that only to my heart were sent I wish I could erase October from all my diaries' space But it's the month where the memory challenges time's final embrace But when the Moon erases the Sun and the city finally sleeps I close my eyes and feel your warmth that my memory keeps It is the only moment when this yearning calms my soul And I find you again, making me briefly whole But the rest of the year is just dust, just sand slipping through Until the day the calendar makes the time return to you And then, on that night, the very date of your goodbye Your old guitar case shifts, without the help of my eye It's a single, sharp note that tears the air, deep and off-key It's not my hand, not my guitar, it is yours, returning to me Once a year, the string vibrates in the utter dark And I know that life exists beyond this lonely mark It's the promise that the music that bound us will never die And when the Moon erases the Sun and the city finally sleeps I close my eyes and feel your warmth that my memory keeps It is the only moment when this yearning calms my soul And I find you again, making me briefly whole Once a year, your guitar plays, and I finally can see That a part of your love still lives in me, for all eternity