Silver Buttons - Heidi Berry

You were a little bleary the first time we met

So the night’s proceedings you would not recall

But I would never forget

A little clumsy, but with tenderness

Undoing all the silver buttons on my dress

And both untouched by sleep

Me, with eyes wide open

You, in oblivion

Never really making it to the same place at the same time

But I never would’ve believed that it would end this way

If you can’t hold on tight then let go

And that’s all that I know

Maybe today the rain will fall

And the patterns there will show you

Whether to stay or to go

I held you while you cried for the loves you’d lost

And listened while you re-invented your own past

And when I’d had enough and was on my way

You called me back again

You never really wanted me, you just wanted the company

Well, here’s another name to add to your mythology

If you can’t hold on tight then let go

And that’s all that I know

Maybe today the rain will fall

And the patterns there will show you

Whether to stay or to go