I was a city of sirens and empty streets
Cracked glass heart and the thunder repeats
I was a prayer with a mouth full of ash
Biting my tongue till the blood met the crash
I was the smoke that had swallowed the sun
Counting my failures like beads one by one
You walked in quiet as a candlelit sea
Set down your light and you breathed into me
I keep a list of the wrongs I’ve done
Wear it like armor that weighs a ton
You take the weight like it’s made to be free
You put your hand on my chest and you steady me
When I break, you reach in the fire for me
When I drown, yours is the voice on the breeze
I don’t deserve the air that you give me to breathe
But there you are, right next to me
Right next to me
I was a house with the roof torn wide
Rain in the bedroom and shame inside
You brought a hammer and a handful of nails
Fixed up the windows to let in the pale
First light morning, mercy in gold
All of the stories I never have told
You read the pages I tried not to see
And wrote in the margins, you’re still worthy
I run to the edge where the pavement ends
You walk the cliff till the path bends
You take my fear like a feather from me
You put your hand on my pulse and you steady me
When I break, you reach in the fire for me
When I drown, yours is the voice on the breeze
I don’t deserve the air that you give me to breathe
But there you are, right next to me
Right next to me
Stay, stay where the dark can’t see
Say, say you won’t loosen me
Right next to me, right next to me
I keep a room where the grief lives on
Old ghosts humming their hardest song
You turn the knob with a careful hand
You teach the choir a gentler hymn
If grace has a face, I know that face
If mercy speaks, I know that phrase
It sounds like laughter after the rain
It sounds like healing in my name
If I am a river that loves to flood
You are the shoreline that holds my blood
You take the storm like it’s meant to be
You put your hand on the waves and you steady me
When I break, you reach in the fire for me
When I drown, yours is the voice on the breeze
I don’t deserve the air that you give me to breathe
But there you are, right next to me
Right next to me
Lay down the hammer and rest your bones
I’ll learn your courage and make it home
If I ever become who you swear you see
It will be because you stood by me
Call it a miracle, call it a sign
Every forgiveness you give becomes mine
You hold a mirror I’m afraid to meet
You say I’m more than my worst defeat
When I break, you reach in the fire for me
Soft as a whisper that sets me free
I don’t deserve the air that you give me to breathe
But there you are, right next to me
Right next to me when the night won’t end
Right next to me till my bones mend
If I’ve got a future, you’re the key
Stay where you are
Right next to me