You Came So Close

You could no more kill the darkness

Than you could raise the sun

And the sky was cold and black

Like the barrel of a gun

And I remember the tremble

In the words you spoke

As you balanced there on the brink

At the end of your rope

You came so close to letting go

And you knew she would hate you

She would kick you out

You'd been lying in the bed that you made

When you broke your vow

Then you work in the wasteland

Of the truth you told

And you turned to see she strayed,

She was bright as a band of gold

You came so close to letting go

So don't let go, 'cause you never know

Don't let go, you never know for sure

And the sky in Nashville

It can bend you low

'Cause the winter here is gray

Without a trace of snow

But there is no shadow

On the silver stars

And the colder the night is,

The closer the heavens are

And we're so close

So don't let go

'Cause this I know

Don't let go

This I know for sure:

There's still hope