[Verse 1] I learned early how to soften my steps, how to leave no shape behind. Keep the glass from catching my face, keep the door closed in my mind. There were hands that called it kindness, there were rules dressed up as love. So I grew around the silence like a tree that sees no sun. [Pre-Chorus] I thought there was nothing left to take if I never let it stay. Then you put your name inside my mouth, and I learned another fear. [Chorus] What if the dark remembers me? What if it follows where I go? What if everything I carry finds its way into your bones? I could live with being haunted. I have done it all my life. But I could not bear to watch it learn the shape of what is mine. So if I leave before the morning, do not call it running away. There are things I would become before I let them make you pay. [Pre-Chorus] I was never scared of dying. Death asks very little of me. But love has made a coward of the part that wants to keep. [Chorus] What if the dark remembers me? What if it follows where I go? What if everything I carry finds its way into your bones? I could live with being haunted. I have done it all my life. But I could not bear to watch it learn the shape of what is mine. So if I leave before the morning, do not call it running away. There are things I would become before I let them make you pay. [Bridge | very quiet] I know the names of every door I swore I would never open. I know how easily love becomes a promise left unspoken. And I am so tired of being brave only when nobody sees. If I could lay this bloodline down, I would lay it at your feet. [Instrumental Rise] [Final Chorus] If the dark remembers me, let it follow me alone. Let it tear through every chapel, every garden I have known. I will carry all my ghosts out where their voices cannot reach. I will teach them I am ending what was handed down to me. And if someday you should wonder why I loved you from afar, I was only trying to leave you something kinder than my scars.
