These petals

This blackened rose

In a soil all my own

Shrouding your hallowed ground

Like seeds who'll never sow

Like forgery and larceny

And my ill-gained revelry

I recite these scripted lines

While embers of a different time...

Go drifting by

When every word you ever said came true

All I missed in all of this was you



(Chorus)

Can you see a shadow on me

Calling me to leave

Find in me a trace of you in

All this tragedy

You're the only home I know



These pieces

The shattered shards

Dancing in the moonlight

Glimmering and glistening

Preparing me for the night

I never learned to walk the surface on my own

So lately this ocean floor

Has been feeling more like home



(Chorus)



So take me in these fleeting moments

Of solitude in you

Remove this fascination with shadow and remove

This shattered self of preservation

This commitment to undo

All that you forgave and give

And all you promised to...



(Chorus)

Can you see the shadow lifting?

Drifting home again




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