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 and 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, off into the next fall
I am on the back steps tryin' to let you in
See you standin' 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 when I sleep
Muscle memory.

When you feel the chains
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.

When I'm playin' games
When I'm drinkin' wine
And I see your glass
Sittin' 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 when I sleep
Muscle memory.