Lyrics

DANCING FOOL

I will wait for you here

I am the flower you are the flame

Burned to the ground and you are to blame

But is it really worth it if it’s beauty without pain

So if you’re spreading fire, I’ll be the same

I will wait for you here

One quarter passion one quarter meticulous plans

In the truth the other half’s the whims of a wild working man

Father I have learned that most roads are paved with stone

So if I’m spreading fire, you be the wind that blows me home

I will wait for you here

Mother,

I’ve no love for this place

But if I live for love

Than I’ll have to stay 

And meet my demons face to face

Mother 

I’ve no love for this place

But if I live for love

Then I’ll have to stay 

And learn to live in grace

You be the craftsman I’ll be the tool

You be the stage, I’ll be a dancing fool

I will wait for you here

I will wait for you here

I will wait for you here

DEVIL’S WALTZ

Come on my girl take hands with me

And we’ll waltz around that sycamore tree

And we’ll sing an old song that we heard on the wind

In hopes of escaping the devil’s worst sin

And it goes…

Lie die die I don’t feel any pain

When we roll in the mud and we play in the rain

My heart it bleeds through on my shirt leaves a stain

Numbed by the tune of our lovers’ refrain

You’ll call me wisdom and I’ll call you boy

We’ll represent life, one suffering one joy

We’ll dance round the edges of placing the fault

We’ll twirl the fine line of the devil’s waltz

Lie die die I don’t feel any pain

When we roll in the mud and we play in the rain

My heart it bleeds through on my shirt leaves a stain

Numbed by the tune of our lovers’ refrain

I’ll kiss you goodbye and I’ll lace up my boots

The taste of your skin is the sweetest of fruits

Then I marched into battle and all that I felt

Was the kiss of the bullet that sent me to hell

I lifted your body and screamed at the gods

Have of my soul is what our love cost

And then laced up your boots and climbed down to save

That man soul and body from hades sweet grave

And it goes

Lie die die I don’t feel any pain

When we roll in the mud and we play in the rain

My heart it bleeds through on my shirt leaves a stain

Numbed by the tune of our lovers’ refrain

Lie die die I don’t feel any pain

When we roll in the mud and we play in the rain

My heart it bleeds through on my shirt leaves a stain

Numbed by the tune of our lovers’ refrain

You’ll watch me put on that pretty black dress

And I’ll dress to match you in Lucifer’s vest

That we stole from him on that cold winter’s eve

We’re dressed in the moonlight of lovers and thieves

EASTBOUND

Bring me that horizon. Let me hear the call of Sirens. I won’t go to them,

For I have better things in mind with the sea in front, the sea behind, 

And the wild, wild, wild, wind whipping on my shoulders.

In the sea we have no name. We are brothers, we’re the same,

but we hear differently.

Both strong and in our youth, the exception is I’ve heard the truth, 

and all I want is you to hear it, too.

Do you know what you’re looking for? Do you know what you’re searching for?

We’ve left behind the shore and come knocking on the sea’s front door 

in hopes that she will take us where she’s going.

Will she take us to the East? Is that where we’ll find the feast? Either way 

we will follow where she’s flowing.

We’re proving what we know--that we can face the sea and return home, 

when in our heads just screaming, 

“We are not alone, we are not alone, we are not alone!”

Do you know what you're looking for? Do you know what you’re searching for?

I can see what’s in your mind. Look ahead. Let go of what’s behind, or that storm will take you over the side.

And I’ll reach down and pull you out, even though we’re both sure to drown. 

Maybe overboard is just a different route.

Down down we go to the bottom, sinking deeper, darker, down we go. Sirens’ songs, the light is gone, this life is long, and

I’ll do you wrong, and all the things you thought below . . . 

You’re not alone, you're not alone.

Do you know what you're looking for? Do you know what you're searching for?  

Do you know what you're looking for? Do you know what you're searching for?     

Do you see what a life could be if you could just be free like me?

And I have seen what you're looking for, and I have seen what you're searching for.

Now we must return, to see if we’ve really learned, or if the sun just left us burned.

For the sea it treats us well, but if we learn to love ourselves,

We can learn to love you.

We can learn to love you.

The Haunting

We keep repeating the same words

In heightened speech, with cutting verbs

Don’t you know by now, I speak and you will learn

If I don’t hear, your words won’t hurt

Never put up any fight

Except when it’s in my own mind

Like a smothered storm my thoughts they go unknown

Patch the boat, mind the water, make it home

But I drink you in, spit you out

Build you up tear you down

It’s just the back and forth to let you know

Seasons change so things may die then grow

Things must change

Say my name

I’m so scared I’m the one that is to blame

Little Lion let me be

Little liar is it me?

Lying in bed where words like “fine..” 

Roll out like steam

But lies will rot the heart and thoughts

And never shield me like I think

But I drink you in, spit you out

Build you up tear you down

Pull you close, and push you out

Someday we’ll learn to shut our mouths

It’s just the back and forth to let you know

Seasons change so things may die then grow

Things must change

Say my name

I’m so scared that I’m the one that is to blame

Over and over and over it goes

With the wine playing tricks and the room spinning slow

I hope that you enjoy the music I chose,

The candles I lit, they’re just part of the show

And I’m trying to focus and show you I notice

Your eyes perfectly match the dress that you’ve chosen

I’m standing here frozen--missed out on the moment

Maybe I should just give it up

But it’s the love that keeps the haunting in my bones

The ghost that hunts me daily, and won’t leave me alone

And if you’re saying that you love me--say it slow

And I’ll need you to show me

I need you to show me

I need you to show me

I need you to show me

I need you to show me

I need you to show me

I need you to show me

I need you to show cuz 

It’s just the back and forth to let you know

Seasons change so things may die then grow

Things must change

Say my name

Now I know I’m the one that is to blame

Backward Glance

Chorus after chorus I’ve been sucking down these dregs of this

Dark roast coffee of bitterness

If you paid with your own money then you must drink it

Even if you’re full and the flavor is piss

But a porcelain Jesus came and stole all my words

He called it a blessing by lifting off that burden

I’m no prophet who speaks bread from steam

I’m just some judge in this american scheme

I’ve been hearing your voice as I fall asleep

Playing mom and dad in my make-believe

Don’t matter if these things are only in my dreams

For I’d go and make these dreams come true

Because without a backward glance I’d go and make a family out of you

I was born a baby crying in a sterilized room

But I will go quiet in my white washed tomb

Maybe I was crying because I already knew

That I’d lose my infant heart on some quest to find the truth

Oberst mirrors my beating heart and Avett speaks my mind

Thile brings my doubts to light, Jon Foreman gives me signs

And good old Sondre Lerche wrote the song “To Be Surprised”

Little did he know he wrote that song about my life

As a poet I will join them I will do my very best

To only speak the truth when I send it to the press

The thing about my truth is that it’s just a young man’s guess

And the voices in my head are saying just give it a rest

But I’ve been hearing your voice as I fall asleep

Playing mom and dad in my make-believe

Don’t matter if these things are only in my dreams

For i’d go and make these dreams come true

Because without a backward glance I’d go and make a family out of you

Bright Things

Say what you want, I will kiss you in the light of the dawning morn’

And I’ll hold you till it’s over and kiss the broken pieces that have been torn

We put off the sleeping for the music and the drinking—for the singing.

It was a tickle, a whisper, a thing that I felt in my chest. On further inspection I detected the soul I love the best. Your heart beating in me was the birth of our first kiss I confess

Oh my girl when I saw your face

And you cried for the love of a broken boy—then I knew grace. 

I’ve been covered in riches and blessed by all wisdom. November’s flame

I’ve been crying my nights away from joy knowing you feel the same

For you plunged in to save me and pulled me out by my soul. And when I resurfaced I found that I’d been made whole. And since-- I’ve been laughing for love I cannot control.  

All of the world and all of the love that I’ve seen-- your hope and your beauty--are all the bright things to me.

Buried Side By Side

The day that I stop loving you I’ll smoke an Aging Room

And I’ll dance all night and howl at the moon

Then I’ll collapse in a heap, overcome by grief

Because my beating heart has left my chest for good

My prayer for the longest time is death would find me soon

And I know you pray the same you always do

I cannot say goodbye, but I live a lie

Can’t help hoping we’ll be buried side by side 

I read a poem today and my thoughts which were a washcloth

 wrung out to raggedness had no room

For the solid building blocks of fact this poem was short and glorious 

and it made oh it made me cry

This poem it changes me and that’s why I call it art 

and hold this precious thing inside my pocket

My prayer for the longest time is death would find me soon

And I know you pray the same you always do

I cannot say goodbye, but I live a lie

Can’t help hoping we’ll be buried side by side 

Sitting on your floor all my excuses used up for these uninvited visits to your kitchen

In my head just clicking while enjoying this sweet sipping

Words stolen from those transcripts of those memories

My prayer for the longest time is death would find me soon

And I know you pray the same you always do

I cannot say goodbye, but I live a lie

Can’t help hoping we’ll be buried side by side 

I used to worry--am I satisfied

Will I find you in my pictures in the future

Now I don’t worry about anything but one

Girl all I really worry about is you

All I really worry about is you

All I really worry about is you

All I really worry about is you

My prayer for the longest time is death would find me soon

And I know you pray the same you always do

I cannot say goodbye, but I live a lie

Can’t help hoping we’ll be buried side by side 

Hole in the Roof

Tell me your worries your fears and your cares

Tell me your hopes your loves your despairs

For I’m just a boy who knows what you mean

I get what you’re saying, I see what you see

And I have been fixing a hole in the roof

Where the bats fly in daily and the rain comes through

I’ll tell you mine babe if you tell me yours 

The sky may turn blue, but when it rains, it pours

The younger the sadder but the bigger the grin

You don’t know me, you just know where I’ve been

And I have been fixing a hole in the roof

Where the bats fly in daily and the rain comes through

The birds are singing her love’s voice is ringing

And I don’t know what to do

The birds are singing and her love’s voice is ringing

And I don’t know what to do

I could fix up this roof but then the sun won’t shine through

There will be no more blue skies for me and for you

I have been fixing that hole in the roof

Where the bats fly in daily and the rain comes through

The younger the sadder but the bigger the grin

You don’t know me, you just know where I’ve been

I Won’t

Please don’t let me go

I won’t let you go

Then you’ve got to let it show

I will try and show you/that

All these places in between those wild words and daring dreams

Are wrapped up in that tale of you and me

Your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet

You’re too smart to go down any not-too-good streets

So tell me no lies because I’ve heard that before

Show me some proof pull me out that old door

This find quilt of love that we’ve so tightly sewn

It ain’t necessary boy you’re fine on your own

I know that I’m fine I just want you here with me

You’re so sweet sunny swell, gee, you’re so dang nifty--SO

Please don’t let me go

I won’t let you go

Then you’ve got to let it show

I will try and show you/that

All these places in between those wild words and daring dreams

Are wrapped up in that tale of you and me

I know that I’m fine when you leave me alone

It’s just that you’re my heaven my heart and my home

You don’t love me because you need to you just do because you do

Loving ain’t a remedy it’s a way to help you through

Remember our first summer? Our truest truest true

The sky atop our happy heads was the brightest bluest blue

I loved you and you fell for me we were lonely that’s a fact

But If loneliness was the only cause this just ain’t gonna last

(Don’t say that!)

Please don’t let me go

I won’t let you go

Then you’ve got to let it show

I will try and show you/that

All these places in between those wild words and daring dreams

Are wrapped up in that tale of you and me

I’ve been up all night and down all day

Too tired from meeting you every which way

I just want to know, just need to be shown

There’s someone to hold me, I ain’t on my own

I’ve tried to start thinking of teachings and preaching

Of wizened old men while my body is shrieking and moaning dismay

I just feel so lost when I know you’re away

Just want to know someone who shows me I shouldn’t just wait, and drink, and drive, and hide, and scream, and swear and swindle a little and swindle a lot

Need someone to show me I’m more than I’m not

Rocks below heaven alive it’s time to dive I’m losing my mind

My mind has been chasing my stomach around

Up to my throat and way down to the ground

If love makes such madmen out of strong kings

What chance do I stand in the wake of such things?

Please don’t let me go

I won’t let you go

Then you’ve got to let it show

I will try and show you/that

All these places in between those wild words and daring dreams

Are wrapped up in that tale of you and me

Please don’t let me go

I won’t let you go

Then you’ve got to let it show

I will try and show you/that

All these places in between those wild words and daring dreams

Are wrapped up in that tale of you and me

Like Kings

I’ll trade all of my money for one last pack of strings

And if you promise to go with me then we’ll take the world like kings

But we won’t go where the wind blows

No we won’t go where the wind blows

We’ll only go the places we’re shown

And let the light let us not be alone

I’ll trade away my right hand to keep yours inside my left

To hear you whisper softly feel your head against my chest

In my pocket I’ve been hiding a ring

And trying to express you in these foolish melodies

I’ll love and will pull you up and out when you sink

It’s the cost of the joy that you bring to me

I’ll trade all of my money for one baby girl

I’ll do my best to show her all the dirt that’s in the world

The world needs the dirt to grow

Those flowers, they can’t bloom in the snow

She’ll raise up the world with the beauty she’s shown

So I’ll teach my baby girl all I know

I’ll trade all of my money for one precious boy

I’ll do my best to raise him in the lust and in the world

I hope he is sweeter than me

I hope that he’s braver than me

I hope that he takes after you

And lets his heart be the lead of his feet

Remember all the times that you kissed me on the cheek

And said sometimes we’re in the valley, sometimes we’re at that peak

I’ll love you as long as you continue to seek

What little good your small hands can bring

I know that you’re sweeter than me

I know that you’re braver than me

I keep hoping I can take after you

And let my heart be the lead of my feet

I’ll trade all of my money for one last pack of strings

And if you promise to go with me then we’ll take the world like kings

Out in the Breeze

Well I stay out in the breeze 

For it’s the only thing for me

To see if blood’s still flowing through my veins

I’ve been spending time on knee

Confessing to some priest

To see if there’s some love I can attain

Now I know long ago I thought I lost my soul

Lost it to those demons that I always thought were true

Now I know my heart and soul were really lost in you

I’m a hypocrite a pessimist 

My lustful eyes are so unfit 

If your beauty was a liquor i’d keep drinking

I’m keep running across bridges you look away and I blow kisses

I keep dancing just to keep my brain from thinking

Now I know long ago I thought I lost my soul

Lost it to those demons that I always thought were true

Now I know my heart and soul were really lost in you

I felt her breathe and close her eyes

Hair falling on her face

She snatched a glance and then began to say

One day i’ll know everything there is to know about you

And that will be the best of days

That will be the best of days

Now I know long ago I thought I lost my soul

Lost it to those demons that I always thought were true

Now I know my heart and soul were really lost in you

Over the River

Cold falls quickly to spring

Spring is the season of change

I will wait for you

I will wait for you

Summer slips slowly to fall

South’s where the birds are all called

I will wait for you

I will wait for you

And my voice sings

out for the one who knows what my heart is about

Kisses on covered bridge

Bridges fall to darkened streams

Streams sail kisses away

Where they go they don’t say

I’ll sit as you tussle my hair

You’re here so I breathe in sweet air

Till death do us part

Till death do us part

And my voice sings out

For the one who knows what my heart is about

Hold to my fingertips

Press them soft to your lips

I will love you today

Till your curls they turn gray

For your eyes stay the same

And my voice sings out

For the one who knows what my heart is about

Prodigal

Wrapped up in blankets hiding from my own tears

Believing through blindness that I’ll escape those dear fears

If only my hunger was for righteousness sweet

And only my mind didn’t stain my own feet

How long how long were you thinking you could hide

The fig tree is rotting now by your shame birthed by pride

I’ve been going to bed in all the old places

Dreaming of demons with familiar faces

They look just like loved ones but with tighter embraces

They say we’ve seen your heart and it’s callous it’s heinous 

Your blood and your body fill me with guilt

And fill me with purity there my salvation is built

Each sin that I’ve hidden strikes a spear in your side

But I cannot find your saving face for you blood is in my eyes

I’ve been going to bed in all the old places

Dreaming of demons with familiar faces

They look just like loved ones but with tighter embraces

They say we’ve seen your heart and it’s callous it’s heinous 

Can you hear 

Can you hear

Can you hear

Can your hear

Hush now my child go off to sleep

When will you find that your soul I will keep

Can you hear

Can you hear

Can you hear

Can you hear

Return now my child all is not lost for comes a table but then comes the cross

Your suffering is much and the sun she shines bright

But when she finally goes to rest you’ll be at my right side

I’ve been going to bed in all the old places

Dreaming of demons with familiar faces

They look just like loved ones but with tighter embraces

They say we’ve seen your heart and it’s callous it’s heinous 

The sky may be tempting be we are your roots

If you sever us and bleed out then what will that prove

Because you can cry out and scream out and bleed out and pray

But what if God don’t come down, what if you can’t be saved

So I stuck out my neck to see if they’d follow through 

And I heard a small voice that was wrapped up in truth it said

If your heart is still beating then you are my son

I’ve prepared a feast while you’ve been on the run

Your insults forgotten they’re dead and they’re gone

So you’re free to come home back to where you belong

Robin’s Cup

I came out of the woods to know

That a queen may be a queen of all things, but she may love an ass even so

I came out of the woods to find

That this silly love between her, him, and me, it’s stupid it’s a wreck, it’s divine

So fall with me, and hold tight to my hand

Your lips teach much more than my mind can understand

I came out of the woods to make amends

These shadows that seemed as death in the woods cast in light turned out to be the best of friends

I came out of the woods to understand

And to find that this love that I pledged eternally was as changing and unstable as the sand.

So fall with me, and hold tight to my hand

Your lips teach much more than my mind can understand

Through the bush and through the briar through the flood and through the fire

So fall with me, and hold tight to my hand

Your lips teach much more than my mind can understand

So fall with me, and hold tight to my hand

Your lips teach much more than my mind can understand

I took a sip of Robin’s cup and suddenly your love’s enough

Sanctify Me

Sanctify me I’m in love today

Come with me and I will share with you my name

Blessed by God, who draws us near

He’s been using both your lips each day in teaching me to hear

Marry me for love and for life

Molded by the potter’s hands to be husband and wife

I know your love is just a taste

Of the one who rains the heavens down and showers us in grace

Take my hand and we’ll find our way

And forget all of our shame in relearning how to play

Be my bride, till we grow old

And we’ll live each day reflecting all those stories we’ve been told

And I know your love is just a taste

Of the one who rains the heavens down and showers us in grace

Sanctify me, I’m in love today

Come with me, and I will share with you my name

The Orchard

21 years in a sheepskin suit

I clean it each day but the real still shines through

Would I hide in it each day if I’d nothing left to lose

stumble round the earth, sing this verse and hum the tune that

I don’t know where I’m going

I don’t know where I’m going

What if I don’t make it

What if no one knows my name

Lay my feelings out in song, and no one feels the same

*will you connect with me*, sing back to me

let me know you know

that like me you’re always searching and you never seem to grow

and we’ll sing 

we don’t know where we’re going

we don’t know where we’re going

Don’t you know I love you 

Don’t you know I care

I vow to walk beside you

The doubts you own, I share.

I’ve read it all before in a book with just one rule

love the king, love the cripple, love the whore, love the fool

and if you do IT!….. then you’ll be free

you’ll put down your politics and finally know relief

you’ll say I know where I’m going

I know where I’m going

Instead I want the power of the lion

and the love of the lamb

I want to be upon the screen, a put-on life of pretend friends

Why must I feel it as my birthright, a rope round my neck clings

pull my body to the butchers, I’m the beast I’m not the king

They’ll sing 

oh oh take me where he’s going

and I’ll sing, oh oh oh, I didn’t know what I was hoping for.

We’ll turn the earth in this place

Clear the rocks from the space

Dig the dirt sink the spade

Tend the seeds day to day

As the roots dig down deep

The garden fills with the trees

We’ll prune the old for new leaves

Grow the orchard you need

Backs break, hands shake

Our legs ache under the weight

Cut back weeds, wind or rain

You’ll know we’ve come to say

We won’t go

We won’t go

We won’t leave this wasted world 

till our weary work is whole

The Zoo

My heart is skipping like a stone over silent waters

Each time I try to pull you close I seem to push you farther

Screaming can you hear me, but no sound  escapes my mouth

Four walls they’re made of glass, I can’t escape but I can look through

Too slow to realize I’m not the human I am the zoo,

Come one, come all.

And you’ll find at the back of my mind 

Is a voice saying son if they love you they’re blind

If you stay in your cage and let nobody through, 

you’ll never feel pain, you’ll have no one to lose

We’ll live out each day in our box of perfection, 

The numbness will keep you from feeling rejection

oh  I am all that there is 

I am the cut, and I am the kiss. 

Darling girl I swear it’s true

I try to keep my vows to you

but selflessness has never been my virtue

You paid your dues we’ve had our laughs

if you said that you take it back 

I swear I’d never think to blame you

The scars across my side don’t show

It’s love I want it’s pride I know

The more I learn the less I seem to grow

Oh… I see you

Can’t seem to say it but I hope you know I need you

Lie die die

When you come back home you know I’ll greet you

I hope you know I’ll always reach you

My mind is skipping like a stone over silent waters

Each time I try to pull you close I seem to push you farther

Screaming can you hear me, but no sound escapes my mouth                               

Victorious Laughter

I’ve been writing songs under your name before I knew

And never understood a word until the day I met you

Now I know I’m here I’m home

I’ve come back from this bourbon road

It lead me to believe what I now plainly see

That you were made to journey with me

I’ve had all these worries that I thought I’d keep inside

But I met joy come to destroy that guilt, that shame and that pride

Now I know I cannot tell how you can love me so well

It led me to believe what I now plainly see

That you were made to journey with me

I laid out in the rain to see if God would set me free

He sent you in a lighting storm 

I know he struck you with me

It’s by rage that I’ve been fueled

That won’t bring you peace you fool

Let go to be free and prove what I can see

That you were made to journey with me

Nevermind the people’s wrath 

We’ll find our way stray from our path

But I’ve no need to look back now I hold you

And do I even ask her if we just forget our past or

Did that pain just lead us to our victorious laughter

Down from the darkest road in that golden and flickering light

But with you I have found a home and the world is pure and bright

Just to know that you’re somehow with me in the dark though I can not see

I know that i’m as I should, I’m the way I was meant to be

Now I know I’ve been set free to face the cold the wind and the sea

The love that came and found me, and prove what I can see

That you were made to journey with me. 

Will I Wake

Am I at war, am I asleep

Oblivious to winter’s sting

And will I wake to bursting spring

To fight, sleep, eat, repeat

And I’ve been crying to you

I have felt the human curse

Preaching peace that leaves us first

And all our dreams are drenched in thirst

The World has left my heart coerced

And I’ve been crying to you

I was crying, then I woke

To find what God in heaven spoke

He said, “You were good but now you’re broke,

You were good but now you’re broke.”

Worth It

I should be mad at all the stuff I’ve been put through

I should be mad at all the people that I always thought I knew

I should be mad at all the lessons that I was learning when I grew

But I can’t be mad now that I have met you

No I can’t be mad now that I have met you

So push me out in a small boat way out to sea

So I can look back at those painful things that have happened to me

Because they’re worth it

They’re worth it       

they’re worth it

They’re worth it          

My sister said are you still trying to escape

From all your bitterness and your hatred

And all your damning rage

Don’t let it seep into your bones

Don’t lock yourself in your own cage

Instead let it go, it’s your heart that’s really sane

Let it go, it’s your heart that’s really sane. 

So push me out in a small boat way out to sea

So I can look back at those silly things that have happened to me

Because they’re worth it

They’re worth it       

they’re worth it

They’re worth it     

So push me out in a small boat way out to sea

So I can look back at those silly things that have happened to me

Because their worth it

I should be mad at all the stuff I’ve been put through

I should be mad at all the people that I always knew I knew

I should be mad at all the lessons that I was learning when I grew

But I can’t be mad now that I have met you

Because you’re worth it

You’re worth it

You’re worth it

You’re worth it

Pretty Papers

When we met, I dazzled and amazed you

Showing off at every chance I got

Curling fingers open swiftly to contain me,

But before you knew it, all of me was lost

Tossing lovers into certain frenzy,

As the leaves drip down into the earth

Causing chaos on the ocean when you need me,

I’ll be here when all you do is hurt

Swirling up to meet the heavens fondly

Smoothing out those footprints in the sand

I will thrust you into danger and deception

But truly dear I am your only friend

Bursting open all your expectations

Causing bedlam everywhere I go

Blame it on my recklessness or my redemption

Oh my love, my weeds were bound to show

Weaving past the seasons in a heartbeat

Pausing quick to graze you on the cheek

Wrecking all your (my) pretty papers on your (my) desk, dear

I know that you hate it when I’m weak

Whistling in to all those tiny tree holes

Forcing all the chimes to dance with joy

I’ll make for certain to find you when you’re sleeping

And remind you of those times we had before

Rustling up all your darkest worries

I will pry and poke and prod ‘til dawn

Just to show me to that last forbidden window

I promise that I’ll catch you when you jump