Black Water Halo

There’s a halo hanging over your head tonight

Flickering gold in the dashboard light

You look over at me like you already know

I’ve been losing fights I never showed

And darling, I know I’m hard to love

Half smoke, half damaged blood

But you hold my name like a prayer in your mouth

Like maybe I’m worth saving now

Your fingers trace the tattoos on my skin

Like reading every place I’ve been

And for a second I swear to God

I don’t hate the man I am

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Cause when you pull me close

The whole world disappears

No noise

No ghosts

No fear

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You’re my black water halo

My heaven in the low light glow

The only peace I’ve ever known

In a life that never slowed down

And if my heart breaks open someday

If the darkness finally takes me

I hope your voice is the last thing

Echoing through my bones

Cause loving you feels like

Standing barefoot in the rain

After years of drought

Finally believing

I deserve to be found

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You cry quietly when nobody sees

Carry pain so elegantly

Like even your sorrow was made

To teach broken men how to breathe

And I wish you saw yourself the way I do

Moonlight soul, eyes burned blue

A heart too soft for this world

Still choosing love after all you’ve been through

I know forever sounds naïve

But forever’s every night you reach for me

Every sleepy “I love you”

Like you’re scared I’ll leave in my dreams

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But baby, if my mind caves in

If the wolves come back again

Just hold me the way you did

That first night

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You’re my black water halo

My church beneath neon roads

The only hand I’ve ever held

That made me feel less alone

And if this world tears us apart

If time comes hunting for our hearts

I’ll spend every life after this one

Trying to find you again

Cause loving you feels like

A wound finally closing shut

Like every empty part of me

Was waiting for your touch

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So dance with me in kitchen light

Barefoot at 2AM tonight

While the windows shake from thunder outside

And let the world keep turning cold

We’ll grow old slow

Wrapped up in each other’s shadows

Like two lost souls finally called home

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When they ask me what love was like

I’ll tell them:

It sounded like your laughter

In the middle of my worst nights

It looked like your sleepy eyes

Searching for me before sunrise

It felt like finally coming home

After being lost

For my whole life.