Blue Silk Snagged

Verse 1

Midnight moon marks the brick

Small shadows stretch long

Pale plastic pine

Garland gets dusty on the frame

Sudden sound

Someone starts to slip

Blue silk snagged on a nail

Red ribbons on her knuckles

Pre-Chorus

Fear finding her

Front door feels far

Wait and wonder

Stay and struggle

Chorus

Not tonight

Not tonight

Drawing a border

Across the bone

Keep your hands back

Give her back the control

Not tonight

Not tonight

Verse 2

Stiff starch against the skin

Tall tubes on a cart

Slow breath

Waiting for the ticking to stop

Ice on the glass

Ink on a chart

Paper pulse

Finding a way to win

Pre-Chorus

Fear finding her

Front door feels far

Wait and wonder

Stay and struggle

Chorus

Not tonight

Not tonight

Drawing a border

Across the bone

Keep your hands back

Give her back the control

Not tonight

Not tonight

Bridge

Wash the worry

Wash the water

Wash the weight

Building a fence around the breath

Building a fence around the name

Building a fence around the self

Safe in the silence

Chorus

Not tonight

Not tonight

Drawing a border

Across the bone

Keep your hands back

Give her back the control

Not tonight

Not tonight