[Intro]
[low guitar drone
Distant feedback]
Breathing in the dark
Pictures on the wall
Little painted hands
Still smudged on the hall
[Verse 1]
Tiny shoes by the door
Pink coat on the chair
I trace your name in dust
Whisper a clumsy prayer
I’d take every bruise you’ll ever bear
Every storm you’ll never see
If the world comes with teeth
Let it come for me (come for me)
[Chorus]
This is love
That drags me to my knees
Torn hands
Still holding to your dreams
I’m the shield
Between your heart and hell
If I have to break
I’ll break myself as well
[Verse 2]
She says
“I need you closer”
I flinch when she smiles
Her kisses taste like secrets
Like rust and denial
She carves her name into my skin
Says
“Pain is how we stay”
I keep coming back to the burn
‘Cause I can’t look away (can’t look away)
[Chorus]
This is love
That drags me to my knees
Cold hands
Clawing as I bleed
I’m the wound
I’m the warning bell
If this is all we get
Then call it heaven’s hell
[Verse 3]
Blue lights flood the window
Tiny face in the glass
Your doll falls on the driveway
As the handcuffs clasp
They read my sins in a steel-gray room
Every photograph
Every text
Love crossed a line in the shadows
Now a child lives with the wreck (with the wreck)
[Bridge]
I said I’d die to keep you safe
Now bars are all you see
I broke the word “forever”
On a twisted need in me
This isn’t love
This is a cage
Your tears grow up
Into my rage
[Chorus]
This is love
That drags us into flames
Three ghosts
Sharing one last name
I’m the chain
You’ll carry like a spell
I loved you so wrong
I built your private hell
[Outro]
[band drops
Lone guitar ringing]
Tiny shoes by the door
They don’t fit you now
I press my head to the steel
And choke on every vow