I’d Stand an Eternity in Your Shadow of Love and Flames

Standing in the dark while you’re burning bright,

The silhouette of us is the only thing that’s right.

I’d stand an eternity in your shadow of love and flames,

Drowning in the heat, screaming out our fucking names.

The world can turn to ash, let the cities all decay,

I’m anchored to the spot where you cast the light away.

It’s a beautiful disaster, a goddamn holy mess,

I’ll take the soot and fire just to feel your cold caress.

Your heart is a furnace, mine is made of stone,

But I’d rather be your shadow than be standing here alone.

So let the embers fly and let the bridges all burn down,

I’ll be the ghost behind you in this scorched and hollow town.

Every breath is smoke, every kiss is just a sting,

I don’t give a shit about what the future’s gonna bring.

I’d stand an eternity in your shadow of love and flames,

Sick of playing nice, sick of all these mental games.

Wrapped in the eclipse of everything you are,

Guided by the glow of a dying, fucking star.

If this is how it ends, let the fire take it all,

I’m staying in the shade until the final curtain fall.

I remember how your skin felt before the world went loud,

Back when we were just a whisper, not a mushroom cloud.

I’d trace the lines upon your palm while the room was still and deep,

Holding onto promises I knew we couldn't keep.

Now the air is thick with cinders and the sky is bleeding red,

But I’m still memorizing every word you ever said.

It’s a violent kind of worship, a desperate kind of grace,

To find my only heaven in this hellish, burning place.

You’re the fever in my blood, you’re the ache inside my chest,

The only part of living that was better than the rest.

If the heat is gonna take me, let it take me by your side,

With nothing left to cover and nowhere left to hide.

I don’t need the sunlight, I don’t need the open air,

Just the heavy scent of you and the way you used to care.

I’ll stay right here beneath you while the foundations all give way,

Loving you in ruins until the ending of the day.

The ground is cracking open, swallowing the street,

I’m blistered from the pulse of your fucking heartbeat.

There’s no oxygen left, just the sulfur and the pride,

Nowhere left to run and nowhere left to hide.

You’re the sun gone rogue, you’re the lightning in the vein,

And I’m the jagged outline that’s praying for the rain.

I’d stand an eternity in your shadow of love and flames,

I’ll take the goddamn torture if it means I keep our names.

We’re the center of the blast, the zero on the map,

Caught forever in this beautiful and terrifying trap.

So let it scream, let the sky turn into glass,

Watching every second of our tragic history pass.

I’m the darkness at your heels, the silence in the roar,

The one who’s seen the worst of you and still wants fucking more.

Burn it down. Burn it all to the cold and blackened ground.

As long as I’m in your shadow, I never want to be found.

Just you and me in the furnace, baby.

Just the love and the flames.