For far too long I have carried this torch
Walking over hot coals, my feet sorely scorched
It flickered with the light of a star lit candle
Much more than one single heart could handle

It absorbed my life but brought little satisfaction
It always searched to find your loves reaction
It sought the beam of passionate emission
Always seeming turned off, in darkened submission

But still it glowed like a homing beacon
Just for your affection to guide your minds reason
All you had to do was press the hearts switch
But your fingers held back, resisting their twitch

If two lights could never hope to meet
Then singular love is a sorrowful lonely street
Like the memories of time it will eventually fade
Like the passing of the last old soldiers parade

For the torch of love cannot forever stay bright?
When the batteries of life fail in their sight