Lingers

VERSE 1

Licking lips savouring you

All lingers in my heart

Long after I tasted you

VERSE 2

Flavours of the day

Always something new

The preserves of my heart

Hold the seasoning you shared

VERSE 3

I hear you say

We all long to savour

Our edible nostalgia

That delicious echo

Of flavour-stitched memories

What is best of us

Is that which lingers

PRE-CHORUS

To rekindle

That sweet sensation

That beautiful confusion

That leaves us reeling

On the edge of falling

REFRAIN

With no way to dismiss

What lingers

VERSE 4

A million five-star chefs

Could ask me

What I savour most

You know what I would say

Every Time

BRIDGE

Don't you love it

When one taste test

Says this is the real deal

And one truth remains

Amor vincit omnia

VERSE 5

Even after a lifetime

My heart tastes of you

A symphony of flavours

In each tender memory

CHORUS

What endures

What matters

Is the feeling of us

Still lingers

VERSE 6

I miss you

What was ours

It's been ten years

9 days and 4 hours

And each day

I celebrate alone

CHORUS

As the best of you

Still lingers

OUTRO

With no way to dismiss

What lingers

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