Love Still Lives Inside

News arrived today

I grabbed my phone to call and share

But as I dialed your number

I remembered you don't care

Those days are long gone

When we traded hidden dreams

But the impulse lives on

Buried in some deep subconscious need

It's a force of habit

It's a reckoning of time

You swear you've let it go

But every now and then you know

Love still lives inside

When you made your exit

There was nothing left to say

Months have passed now

And I've told myself those years with were a mistake

I gathered all the photos

And threw out the souvenirs

Then I woke one day and

Declared myself finally free and clear

But the mind is trickery

And the heart can't see the lies

Just when you think you're done

The feeling overcomes

Love still lives inside

I wonder if you wonder too

In your fortress of solitude

Where you build up the walls that hide you from the past

And at night before you go to sleep

Have you ever once thought of me

And tried remembering why we didn't last

It's a sudden flashback

With the power to hypnotize

A fragment of memory

That reappears right before my eyes

From the haze of distance

Your smile comes into view

Now you're standing there with open arms

Like some haunting deja vu

So once again I close my eyes

And release you from my mind

As I swear I let you go

Deep down somewhere I know

Love still lives inside