Spoken: Last night I was going through a closet When on a rack of dresses, I found a shirt he'd worn When he held me in his arms for the very last time A shirt I knew that he'd never wear again
As I took it from the rack All my dreams came racing back The faint perfume of sweet life filled the night I could see his face again He kissed my lips as then And I almost felt his arms around me tight
Spoken: A shirt that even the gods must envy For it's arms once encircled a dream that only heaven can bring Inside this shirt had beat the most wonderful heart in the whole wide world And forever each thread shall remind me of him
I turned down a rolled up sleeve And I could scarcely could believe When I looked and saw a strand of my own hair It was clinging like a vine To the shirt he left behind As if to let him know that I still care
I walked to the window sill And my eyes began to fill And I thought I heard the soft wind call his name And the shirt across my arm Was strangely soft and warm As if I'd reached and held it to a flame
Spoken: And there I stood hearing only the beat of my own aching heart Lost in the dreams that might have been And the shirt seemed as sorrowful as I And just as empty, body and soul