The Way It Dimmed - Amanda Shires

This is how I think about you

A parade of images I never finish sorting through

Your hands laced in my belt loops

I remember the fire and the way it dimmed

As a fire will sometimes do

Closer was never close enough

At closing time, we watched the lights and the sun come up

You begged me to stay

You fell asleep and I slipped away

I remember the fire and the way it dimmed

As a fire will sometimes do

Flashback

Your headlights across the lawn

You are the thing I’m always thinking that I lost

Your fingerprints are still burned in to my skin

And I remember the fire and the way it dimmed

As a fire will sometimes do