Lily by Tadzio Lyrics

Lily, you look so still in your hospital bed
Mouth pressed as if holding in a secret death
Your clavicle, defined by the parallel lines
Across your sunken chest, face upturned
The shape that barely holds your color
Lily, I was there with you that day
When the good doctor took your little hope away
How I wanted to kiss your purple lips
I wish I could take his scalpel to cut through the scar
Make a home for myself inside your shivering heart

Lily, I saw you in the mirror, trying to lift your little body into view
The nurse brushing your hair, falling out in knots behind you
It seems that one should only see you like this in a dream
Where doctors dig into your sternum
I saw my reflection in the hollow of your eye lids


Lily, I just want you to know
I remember you falling in the snow…