No More Seattle

In a past now forgotten, you had drawn
a visage of villainy in your kin,
it grew like a sickness and spread.
In a past now forgotten, you had drawn
a nightmare of memories once been
that birthed a persuasion in my head.

There's no more Seattle,
so the rain comes here instead,
no hope for tomorrow, and none for today.
There's no more Seattle,
you only lied when you said
there's hope for tomorrow, hope for today.

Somewhere in time, when we were young
we set out to vanish into the void,
to pack our belongings and move west.
Somewhere in time, when we were young,
long before Seattle was left destroyed,
I still remember you making your request.

There's no more Seattle,
so the rain comes here instead,
no hope for tomorrow, and none for today.
There's no more Seattle,
you only lied when you said
there's hope for tomorrow, hope for today.

You forsake your name that day,
feeling constrained and wanting free,
but you still needed a hand to hold.
You forsake your name that day,
so in the summer we planned to flee,
and yet this would never come to unfold.

There's no more Seattle,
so the rain comes here instead,
no hope for tomorrow, and none for today.
There's no more Seattle,
you only lied when you said
there's hope for tomorrow, hope for today.

Now we've grown tired, withered and old,
you've grown weary of vindictive remarks,
and I can't escape my towering failure.
Now we've grown tired, withered and old,
and so frustrated since we never embarked
that my dreams implode without closure.