I Wish You Stayed Longer - ArlenaZara
Hands on the clock are spinning out
But the time has stopped for me
Stuck in a single moment
Lost somewhere out at sea
They say you lived a full life
A century almost done
But for me it feels like moments
Since our life had just begun
The chair you used to sit in
Is still pulled up to the light
A ghost of your existence
Fading in the coming night
I know I should be grateful
For the time that we once had
But every single second
Of your absence feels so bad
Cause I wish you stayed longer
I wish you had more time
I wish we had more moments
A life that felt sublime
I know you had to leave us
The journey had to end
But the selfish part inside me
Can't you simply mend
A life of a thousand years
Will never be enough you see
I wish you stayed longer
Just here with me
The world keeps trying to tell me
That the pain will fade away
That I should find some happiness
Some simple light of day
But they don't understand
The void you left inside my heart
The chasm that is growing
Since we had to be apart
I hear your voice in every song
I see your smile in every view
And the world just stops around me
Reduced to me and you
I know you're in a better place
A peace I can't deny
But I'm just here regretting
That you had to say goodbye
Cause I wish you stayed longer
I wish you had more time
I wish we had more moments
A life that felt sublime
I know you had to leave us
The journey had to end
But the selfish part inside me
Can't you simply mend
A life of a thousand years
Will never be enough you see
I wish you stayed longer
Just here with me
If hope was a last chance
I would trade my future years
Just for one more moment with you
To banish all my fears
To tell you one last time I love you
To hold you close and tight
To never let you go now
To stay within the light
But time is a one-way street
No chances to amend
Just a bitter realization
That this is the final lonely end
Cause I wish you stayed longer
I wish you had more time
I wish we had more moments
A life that felt sublime
I know you had to leave us
The journey had to end
But the selfish part inside me
Can't you simply mend
A life of a thousand years
Will never be enough you see
I wish you stayed longer
Just here with me
Stayed longer
Made my heart grow stronger
Stayed longer
I just can't move on
I wish you stayed longer
I wish you stayed longer