If You Leave Before Me

If you leave before me, love, wait at the edge of the light.
Keep my name upon your tongue, hold it safe through the night.

Don't cross the river alone. Don't let the silence take you whole.
Stay where the candles still burn.
I'll be following; I'll return.

If you leave before me, promise me you'll wait.
Stand amongst the shadows at the kingdom's gate.
Call my name in echoes, through the darkened sea.

If you leave before me...
Love, don't leave me, completely.