We Were Coming Apart

We were feeling sick We were stuck in it In that pit of a city In which we were living Out of money, out of time Out of reasons left to lie Through the longest nights, I saw you cry Saw you lying on your side Cut out my tongue to see eye-to-eye And watched you slipping from the light It was the blackest dark It was the crack of hearts We were coming apart She couldn't sleep That old house creaked In the dead of night The walls would breathe She was never at ease Never relieved Never at peace From the disease Back and forth, I heard her walking On the floorboards, heard her talking To herself at night Asking a god she didn't believe in, for life, Oh for life. As the illness spread To our heads I climbed the walls outside my bed It was a prison cell It was a living hell It was just as well I was awake when I got the call Put down the phone, time to fall No time for grieving Got to be leaving Train ain't waiting Kings Cross Station Got to see you one last time Got to tell you it's alright Even if it's not alright It was the blackest dark It was the crack of hearts We were coming apart After that the city wasn't the same I couldn't stand the noise everything had changed Couldn't hear your voice, you were slipping away It wasn't a choice, I couldn't stay I couldn't stop my head from screaming Couldn't say exactly when But you'd just stopped feeling that feeling You just closed your eyes and then, Let it all just slip away Let it all just slip away It was the blackest dark It was the crack of hearts We were coming apart It was the blackest dark It was the crack of hearts We were coming apart And be still Be still my beating heart Be still Be still my beating heart It was the blackest dark It was the crack of hearts We were coming apart It was the blackest dark It was the crack of hearts We were coming apart It was the blackest dark It was the crack of hearts We were coming apart