Fleeing the Hollow

[Intro / Verse 1 - Male Only] stay… stay… stay… don’t… don’t… don’t go… stay… I built a night where you won’t get lost… kept every shadow off your thoughts… every road bends back to me… I’m the bat that guards your tree… I hear them calling you from the den… low voices creeping under your skin… they don’t love you like I do… they don’t see what you turn into… I keep you close so you won’t fall… cold world outside’ll take it all… I’m the dark that lets you rest… safe in the rhythm inside my chest…

[Pre-Chorus / Chorus 1 – Female Only] You call it shelter, I call it small, every path you make’s a wall, your wings wrap tight around my light, till I forget how to fight. I’m a fox that needs the field, not a secret you can shield, hold too tight, I disappear, love should never feel like fear. You echo through me like the night, but you’re stealing all my sight, I won’t stay where I can’t run, I won’t love your setting sun.

[Verse 2 – Male Only] You say it’s fear… I hear you lie… I see that hunger in their eyes… they’d take your fire… leave you cold… I circle like a bat in hold… Every step you take away… pulls me deeper into day… and I’m not built for all that light… I need you here inside my night… Gave you all of what I am… carved my dark around your den… if you leave then what’s the point… were we ever meant to join…

[Pre-Chorus / Chorus 2 – Female Only] You call it love, I feel it close, every “care” just overdosed, your sky is stitched without a door, I can’t breathe here anymore. I’m a fox that needs the field, not a secret you can shield, hold too tight, I disappear, love should never feel like fear. You echo through me like the night, but you’re stealing all my sight, I won’t stay where I can’t run, I won’t love your setting sun.

[Bridge – Male Only] stay… stay… stay with me… don’t… don’t… don’t leave me… I… I… I kept you—safe—… I gave—gave—gave you home… don’t… don’t… don’t go—

[Bridge / Chorus - Female Only] let me go, let me breathe, I am more than what you keep. You kept me small, you kept me alone. I’m a fox that chose the wild, not your ever-waiting child, held too tight—I broke away, love should never have to stay. You were comfort, you were night, but you never felt like light, I won’t stay where I can’t run, I won’t love your setting sun.