Journeyman

Weren't you my journeyman

Didn't we watch the stars together

Didn't we map the world together

Weren't you my journeyman

When we set sails together

For ages we rode the vast uncharted sea

You still remember the oldest fragments of me

You should be able to see patterns, pictures

I should be able to see constellations

We should still be charting the seas

Somehow we both wandered

Somehow we lost ourselves

Among the islands

Weren't you my journeyman then

Weren't you always

What happened to us

When the falling snow draped the landscape

When the northern lights were what lit our way

When the mist tried so desperately to lead us astray

We navigated together

Through reefs and cliffs

Cleaving the waves

Journeyman,

We could have been saved

You should have held on to every silver key

When I drifted, you should have held on to me

I can't trust a journeyman who'll let me drift

Who'll let the winds carry me away

Did you know I lost everything

In those storms

Did you notice,

Journeyman?

What have we become by now but caricatures

Hardened hearts and dying desires

Drenched in salt and scorched by fires

What have we become by now but stone

Stone statues with memories of old days

Carved into our withering hands

Weren't you my journeyman

Didn't you explore the fields with me

Didn't we search the forests and hills

Before we wandered, before we lost ourselves

Didn't we laugh together, and gaze at the glimmering, frozen water

Weren't we on the same crew, the same ship

Hurdling together with shivering fingers and freezing lips

Now I'm fighting with a loneliness

That slowly kills

There's nothing left for us to chart

Nothing left for us to say

Even thoughts are obsolete

When time has swallowed everything that was

It's too late to save us

Too late to find our way home again

Too late to be my journeyman