There is a light beneath my ribs I keep it where the daylight ends It paints the branches from within But never reaches anyone A thousand faces through the trees Their voices travel through the leaves I know the shape of all their lives They wouldn't know me passing by Every window looks so warm From the outside in I stand where the forest starts And watch the lights go dim The trees don't know my name But I know every shadow I watch their windows glow From somewhere they can't follow There's something shining in me No one will ever see The trees don't know my name The trees don't know my name I hear you laughing miles away A borrowed voice, a borrowed room I know the words you're going to say You don't know I'm listening too So many paths beneath my feet So many strangers I could love I leave no footprints in their sleep I disappear when they wake up Every window looks so warm Like somewhere I have been But when I reach the clearing The house is dark again The trees don't know my name But I know every shadow I watch their windows glow From somewhere they can't follow There's something shining in me No one will ever see The trees don't know my name The trees don't know my name Sometimes the hallway feels too long Sometimes the winter won't move on A door stands open down the hall I could have sworn it wasn't there before And in the glass behind my eyes A little light refuses night If someone saw it, would they stay? Or turn around and walk away? The trees don't know my name But I know every shadow I watched their windows glow Until I became the hollow Still something shines in me Brighter than it should be If no one knows my name I'll burn where no one sees The trees don't know my name The trees don't know my name But something in me— Something in me shines No one sees No one sees But it shines in me
