Verse 1

Midnight shadows dance across your floor

You lock the fears behind a heavy door

I see the bruises that you try to hide

The silent tears you keep trapped deep inside

He speaks in thunder, leaves you in the cold

A bitter script that’s growing tired and old

Yet you return to columns made of stone

And leave me standing in the street alone.

Chorus

Oh, why do you run to the shadow?

Why do you dance with the flame?

I offer a valley of lilies

But you only whisper his name.

He tears down the crown that you carry

I hold up the sky for your grace

You choose the sharp thorns of his torment

And vanish without any trace.

Verse 2

A nightingale that loves a broken cage

You write your sorrow on a golden page

I am the harbor where the storms subside

The steady anchor in a shifting tide

He breaks your branches just to watch you fall

While I am waiting right against the wall

A tragic poem written in your eyes

You trade the sunrise for his stormy skies.

Chorus

Oh, why do you run to the shadow?

Why do you dance with the flame?

I offer a valley of lilies

But you only whisper his name.

He tears down the crown that you carry

I hold up the sky for your grace

You choose the sharp thorns of his torment

And vanish without any trace.

Bridge

(Spoken with dramatic intensity, music dropping to a heavy bass pulse)

You tell me that it's love.

But love doesn't bleed.

Love doesn't scream in the dark.

I am the light.

He is the dark.

(Singing escalates)

Choose!

Before the curtain falls!

Hoo!

Outro

Walking through the rain...

An empty street.

Heartbeats fading.

Why him?

(Ad-lib fading out)

She wants the danger...

She wants the fire...

Break it down.

Hoo!

Cha-muck-on!

Gone.