Muscle Memory

After having spent a fast year waiting for the next time I can get you close

I grew used to being back here like a chorus synth line soldier at his post

You call in, I respond, the sparrow and the song

I miss you when you're gone

When I am alone, I see you in the dark

I talk into the empty like you were with me

Started on a cold night, felt you in the low light

Noticing the reflex taking over me

I see you when I reach

Muscle memory

Again, often to the next fall

I am on the back steps trying to let you in

See you standing in the front hall

Maybe this is madness underneath my skin

Guess the misery responds or the body it haunts

And we do what it wants

When I am alone, I see you in the dark

I talk into the empty like you were with me

Started on a cold night, felt you in the low light

Noticing the reflex taking over me

I see you when I reach

Muscle memory

I feel you endlessly

Muscle memory

When you feel the change of a thousand words

And I speak your name like I know you heard

I can feel you there, I can hear you move

And it moves me too

And I'm playing games and I'm drinking wine

And I see your glass sitting next to mine

I can feel you there when you're not at home

Like I'm not alone

When I am alone, I see you in the dark

I talk into the empty like you were with me

Started on a cold night, felt you in the low light

Noticing the reflex taking over me

I see you when I reach

Muscle memory

I feel you endlessly

Muscle memory