[Verse 1] Midnight clings to the windowpane Like black salt on my skin A funeral bell keeps counting time And my heart marches, half within The city hums like broken wires A swarm of light, a flood of sound I hold my breath inside the noise So I don’t fall apart right now [Pre-Chorus] I speak soft, but I sing it true No whispers, no escape If I go first, what happens then When you’re the one left to brave [Chorus] Hush, my love, in the crushing night I carry heaven like a stone And if the world keeps closing in I won’t let you face it alone I’m scared to die, I’m scared to leave Our boy in all this roar So I sing a shield into the dark Until you’re safe at every door [Verse 2] He hears the world in sharper edges Sirens, crowds, the sudden turn Fluorescent buzz, the metal scrape The kind of noise that makes you burn I try to build him quiet rooms Inside a song, inside my hands But every day the city shifts And I don’t understand its plans [Pre-Chorus 2 – tension build] If I am gone, who learns his patterns Who reads the storm behind his eyes Who stands between him and the shouting When every hallway multiplies [Chorus] Hush, my love, in the crushing night I carry heaven like a stone And if the world keeps closing in I won’t let you face it alone I’m scared to die, I’m scared to leave Our boy in all this roar So I sing a shield into the dark Until you’re safe at every door [Bridge – breakdown, slow heavy] Bell tolls like a bruised heartbeat Glockenspiel cuts through the fog I count his breaths in the doorway While the city shakes its jaw I can’t fix what the world is But I can hold what we are So I lay my fear in the low end And keep my promise in the dark [Final Chorus – bigger, cathartic] Hush, my love, in the crushing night I carry heaven like a stone And if the world keeps closing in I won’t let you face it alone If the lights are knives, I’ll turn them down If the noise becomes a war I’ll be the wall, I’ll be the ground You can lean on evermore I’m scared to die, I’m scared to leave But I’m here—so hear me now I sing a shield into the dark Till we’re safe, till we’re safe somehow [Outro – lullaby fade] Hush… my love… Bell fades, the drones let go And in the quiet that we earn I swear I won’t let go
