"Return To Me" lyrics

As I walk through the depths
Of an empty life
So dim and hollow

I can see the days I've lived
Pass by me in reverse
Now come back to me
Dear Sun
I've had enough
Life was beginning
When I learned we all will fade

Can I shed this old skin?
I've been pacing back and forth
And I cannot take it again

Return to me

This is not how I
Had thought it would be
All that we work for
Is all that is lost in the end
There's no escaping

As the light of the day
Slips slowly from my grasp
I deteriorate
Until there's nothing left

Nothing in this abyss compares
To breathing in another rush of the air
Dreams and reality coalesce
I know now that I am not of this flesh

We are not of this flesh
Flesh

Feel the cold
Embracing my bones
Sinking in
Death's comfort
On my skin

Call my name and I'll know it's real

Let the days you've lost
Echo in your mind
As you wither
With time
Into the darkness

You have given your life
For the sake of something less
Than you had envisioned
This disease, it will take from us
Until there is nothing left

Now there's only dust collecting
Where your body did once lie
Just a shadow in the framework
Of an ordinary life

But I'll hold you close to me
In this memory of mine
Though I am, like any other
Just a fleeting part of time

Return to me

This is not how I
Had thought it would be
All that we work for
Is all that is lost in the end
There's no escape

As the light of the day
Slips slowly from my grasp
I deteriorate
Until there's nothing left