I woke to what was safer late at night   with the lights dim   Illuminated, it’s staring me down   Now I’m not any braver than I’ve ever been,   and you’ve never been   One to let me feel like I could never let you down      Was I just too quiet all those moments I could feel it   Weighing on our frail and aging dreams?   Thought I was supposed to fight it, maybe wait it out, shake my doubts   But that’s not how either of us wanted it to be      CHORUS:   Wake up, Dear   It’s colder inside than   Your faith or my fear   can shoulder this time      It got cast aside like all the letters   I keep telling you I’ll write   when things slow down, but what does that mean   That I’ll start living life when I can make it fit,   maybe I'll start caring for you sometime in between?      CHORUS      Go ahead, I’m listening   Got an ear for disappointment   I can hear it on my breath   it’s the same, same story   I can hear it in your sweet sigh      CHORUS