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.