Shadow In The Dark

You keep the curtains half-open

Sleep in yesterday’s shirt

Coffee gone cold on the counter

Say you’re fine

But it still hurts

You laugh too loud at nothing

You change the subject fast

But in the quiet hallway

I can hear the past

Your pain follows you like a shadow in the dark

Right behind your every step

Breathing in your scars

You can hide your face

But it’s holding your heart

Your pain follows you

Follows you in the dark

I see the tremor in your fingers

When somebody says his name

You count the exits in every room

Like you’re bracing for a flame

You say you’re just “a little tired”

You say you just “need air”

But every time the night falls

I can feel it there

Let it crawl out from the corners

Let it sit here on the floor

I’ll be the light that doesn’t flinch

When it reaches for the door

[low vocal register] You’re not the sum of what it took

Or what they tore apart

I’ll walk beside you

Step for step

Through every shadow

Every dark