Inverted Image lyrics and meaning

Inverted Image

Sweetheart where are the lips

I miss and long to kiss

The corners of which

Turned up so slightly in bliss

Make all else cease to exist

My thoughts drift off to you

I can’t keep them tethered to me

Are you lonely

Or are you relieved

Or are you just as confused as me

As I lay down to sleep tonight

You’re no longer by my side

I long for your tender touch

And fall through the space that once was us

My love where is your love

 I wish we had found it

It’s locked in the dark

Behind a gruesome guard

I don’t envy your journey best wishes

Even if you asked me

Though I know you won’t

I wouldn’t go back there

To that place we both shared

That beautiful lake in which we were both drowning

Flowers whose beauty unsurpassed

Are many things as they float past

The water’s a crystal hue

Of emerald and blue

A resplendent mirror

So silken to feel

Draped in tall trees

And drowned in joy’s tears

Each drop sings a song

Through birds that belong

To beings with on knowledge of right and wrong

So maybe I like to go

Back there sometimes

But only in sleep

When in dreams I reside

To soak in the magic

That we once made

To hold onto something

Before it fades

This is a heartbreak song. About the feelings and emotions I went through after having to leave someone that was an important part of my life who I loved very much. Probably many other people have experienced the same thing..having to get used to sleeping alone..wondering how the other person is handling it..wishing and wondering how you could have made it work. But even though it’s hard to leave that time behind, there is usually a good reason why it had to end. The end of the song gives homage to what I believe to have been a beautiful love, but at the same time I recognize it was not one that could have lasted very long. So it’s a sort of eulogistic farewell.