Trembling Blue Stars

Idyllwild

Album: The Last Holy Writer [2007]
Author: Robert James Wratten

A song on the radio

Makes you shiver

And want to curl into a ball

Makes you want to be

Seventeen

And forget the future’s shrinking

Life was so open then 

Now it’s closing in

Life was wide open then

Now it’s closing in

One by one 

We’ve watched our dreams

Disappearing 

Two girls against the world

Summer nights warm and long

Sleeping all day

So many songs

The shadow cast by long ago

Puts a lump within your throat

A girl whose favourite thing is snow

Snow and being alone

The ocean between us can’t 

Take away the past 

The ocean between us won’t 

Take away the past

There’s a place all we shared

Shines unimpaired

Time flies

Swift as an arrow

The dagger of never trodden paths

Photographs they break my heart

Ambushed by the thought-”I don’t recognize her”

I miss you! I miss her!

Life was so open then 

Now it’s closing in

Life was wide open then

Now it’s closing in

One by one 

We’ve watched our dreams

Disappearing 

But the ocean between us can’t 

Take away the past

The ocean between us won’t

Take away the past

There’s a place all we shared

Shines unimpaired