A Cicada Sings

You don't say much
But silence pulls like tide
Cicadas screaming through the heat
And I smile too wide

Just to see if it still brings you back to me
To the place we used to love
Tell me now before the summer
Breathes its last it feels like love but

Tastes like goodbye
Please don't say it more
Hold me if I still belong to you
Let me go before I beg you to

Don't keep me halfway
Somewhere in your past
When we're rehearsing our last goodbye
I kept my words under my tongue

Cicadas screaming for the words
I lost not a word
I've known it from the start
Now I see we looked away

Oh, what would I say in this moment
When my heart is louder than my voice
Is it too late to say I never moved on
Hold me if I still belong to you

Let me go before I beg you to
Don't keep me halfway
Somewhere in your past
When we're rehearsing our last goodbye

Oh, I almost said your name out loud
But swallowed it down with the heat in my throat
I'm not sure where you at now
But I still flinch when a cicada sings

Are we rehearsing our last goodbye