Part IV: Morning In May

Your sock's on the wood floor

the moment I'd hoped for

I'm terrified to think you might be real

I curl up behind you

fit my body to yours like a shell

I smell your hair, oh love, I can't believe you

I squeeze you to make sure you're really here and I'm overwhelmed

I've been waiting for so long

To touch you and sleep in your eyes

and now as my heart's beating so hard

I hold on and keep you at home in my arms

They tried to console me

but you're all the consolation I ever needed

years of smelling the clothes you left behind

The photographs that seemed so far away

I don't need them now

you turn to me alive, awake, and blinking, baby

"Back so soon?" you ask, but I smile 'cause I never left at all

I've been waiting for so long

To touch you and sleep in your eyes

and now as my heart's beating so hard

I hold on and keep you at home in my arms

You check the clock, it's time to go

You grab your keys and you're out the door

I step outside and you're waving goodbye

It's all happening again like before

as you're starting the car and I'm tearing inside

I knock on your window, you stop just in time

Around to the other side

I say, "Baby, I thought I'd come along for the ride."

I've been waiting for so long

(Time slows, and I take your hand)

to touch you and sleep in your eyes

(I hold you as we lose control)

Together our hearts beating so hard

Hold on, baby, we're almost home