The Lowells - Brilliant Colours Lyrics

Brilliant Colours

So now must I surrender?
Are forces grown too strong?
Oh do I have to let you go after so long?
I know the ghost - the ghost will keep haunting me
There's such a weight - such a wealth to your memory

But nothing lives forever
To that eternal truth
Is love the one exception? Will my last image of you
Glow dim and a little more distantly?
And the wound always ache if no longer bleed?

Speak, resilient little heart
Tell me all the secrets
Of time, of its constant give and take
Say why brilliant colors fade
And passions fall away
I guess joy and pain never last
And it all goes by so fast

Overnight - all my dreams - disappeared
See the days turn the weeks into years

I didn't mean to close my eyes
To turn away - to pass you by
But time moved so quickly - and I'm slow
Watching brilliant colors go
I wasn't ready - I didn't know
What to lose, how to grieve, who to ask
Why it all goes by so fast
So fast
So fast
So fast