Glow In The Ruins

Hand-me-down heart

Frayed at the seams

Kept all my secrets

Folded in jeans

Posters on walls

Peeling like scars

Thought growing up meant

Growing apart

But you walked into my mess

Bare feet on broken glass

Laughed at the darkness

Said

"We’ve survived worse than that"

We’re the glow in the ruins

We’re the light in the cracks

Every bruise

Every burden

You help me lift it off my back

When the world turns poison

And the past comes howling back

Hold my hand

We go through it

Love like ours

Love like ours fights back

You saw the box

Under my bed

Names I don’t say

Words I unsaid

You didn’t flinch

Didn’t look away

Just said

"You’re still you

On your worst day"

So we paint over the ghosts

In colors they can’t stand

Turn the nightmares into stories

Said out loud

Hand in hand

We were kids in the crossfire

Learning which lies felt true

They tried to turn our hearts quieter

But I get louder next to you

[low vocal register] If the night remembers everything

We’ll rewrite what it recalls

[crecendo] Shouting names like incantations

Till our fear falls

Fear falls (oh-oh)