Your Touch

I ache for your touch

the venom is spreading like fire

I am cold

the dark is my friend

Verse 1

I ache for your touch in the middle of the night

Your absence crawls under my skin

The silence is loud, it’s cutting me wide

Every breath feels paper-thin

Pre-Chorus

I tried to pretend I don’t feel the flame

But it’s burning holes in my chest

I whisper your name like it’s medicine

But it only hurts me instead

Chorus

The venom is spreading like fire

Through every thought, every wire

I’m frozen, I’m breaking, I’m tired

I am cold

The dark is my friend when I’m lonely

It holds me when no one knows me

I fall apart quietly, slowly

I am cold

Verse 2

Your shadow still sleeps on my side of the bed

Like you never really left

I replay the words we never said

Till I choke on what’s left unsaid

Pre-Chorus

I reach for the ghost of the way we were

But it slips through my hands again

You were the cure and the wound I kept

Now I don’t know where I end

Chorus

The venom is spreading like fire

Through every thought, every wire

I’m frozen, I’m breaking, I’m tired

I am cold

The dark is my friend when I’m lonely

It holds me when no one knows me

I fall apart quietly, slowly

I am cold

Bridge

If love is a war, I laid down my arms

And let you take what was mine

Now I’m bleeding in beautiful scars

Trying to survive my own mind

I scream in the dark but it answers me back

Tells me I’m not alone

Still I’d trade all this quiet and black

For one moment back in your arms

Final Chorus

The venom is spreading like fire

But I’m learning to breathe through the smoke

I’ve been buried under desire

But I’m learning to let you go

I’m cold… but I’m waking

I’m bruised… but not broken

The dark was my friend in the lonely

But I don’t need it to hold me

I’m not cold

Outro

I ache for your touch…

But I’m healing alone