Hold You In The Dark

Verse 1

Last night felt like refuge

Finally let the silence down

Your head rested on me

Safe, secret, sound

Your laughter loosened lonely longings

Your touch stilled storms in my soul

Steady for a split second

Maybe I wouldn't run, maybe I’d fall

I spoke slow, honest

Every word I bared for you

Not pretending, not hiding

Never felt this with anyone but you

Pre-Chorus

But the hush after closeness

Began to be so loud

My heart started tripping

When forever was vowed

Chorus

I love you when it’s weightless

When midnight’s soft and bright

But each inch you pull closer

My fears beg for a fight

I need you where I’m safest

When my walls all break

But when morning makes it certain

I panic and I shake

I don’t leave for lack of loving

It’s because love burns too strong

I hold you when it’s darkest

But I’m gone by dawn

Gone by dawn

Verse 2

Woke up with a shadow sitting on my chest

Breaths stuck somewhere between want and worry

Promises hung emptier, like questions

Silent needs building and blurry

Not that I don’t want you, never

Not a lie, always true

But closeness sounded foreign

Like something I just can’t do

Tension twisted inside

Pressure pressed until I closed

Love lost its gentle posture

Became a grip I couldn’t hold

Pre-Chorus

You heard it in my silence

Didn’t need to hear a word

Afraid was all that echoed

More than all I’d learned

Chorus

I love you in the quiet

When no tomorrow’s near

But as soon as you dream for both of us

Flight finds me here

I want you in an instant

When love’s wild and unplanned

But if forever’s in your question

I don’t know where to land

It’s not that I don’t love you

It’s the power in the name

Heaven feels like breaking

And danger wears my shame

I hold you in the darkness

And vanish with the sun

Yes, I’m gone by dawn

Every single time

Bridge

Wanting this so badly

Wanting what I can’t hold

Every moment it gets real

My nerves spin out, I fold

Afraid to disappoint you

Afraid to fail myself

Afraid love will lock me

Like every time else

I run before it wrecks me

Before it wounds you too

Even knowing the leaving

Is what truly hurts you

Final Chorus

I love you in the midnight

Safe from my own head

But sunrise brings reality

And a thousand truths I dread

I crave the connection

But not the heavy cost

I want love’s sweet nearness

But fleeing’s what I’ve lost

It’s not about your flaws, no

You’re every hope I’ve known

But love tastes like danger

And I don’t trust my own

I hold you in the silence

Daylight drives me far

I’m gone by dawn

Even loving you hardest

Outro

If loving you was simple

I would have never let go

But closeness frightens deeper

Than any night alone