Blue light breathing on the ceiling ten small windows, ten small names someone edits down the bleeding till it fits inside a frame Hearts arrive in perfect order tiny candles, all the same before the final line has landed everybody leaves the page They’ll hold a match beneath your name but never sit beside the flame Everybody wants a witness nobody wants to stay everybody loves the truth until it looks their way Call it brave call it beautiful frame it for display But when the hurt stops sounding pretty everybody looks away Look away look away Someone whispers, “I’m disappearing” someone answers, “Same as me” every grief becomes a mirror till no one sees who’s underneath Pain is easy through a speaker trimmed to fit the melody harder when it takes a body and asks for your company They know the lyric know the cue know how to praise it not sit with you Everybody wants a witness nobody wants to stay everybody loves the truth until it looks their way Call it brave call it beautiful frame it for display But when the hurt stops sounding pretty everybody looks away Look away look away You showed them where it hurt they called it beautiful You showed them where it hurt they called it beautiful Then looked away When the room went dark and the comments died one chair stayed across from mine No cure to offer no line to say just a pair of eyes that didn’t look away No fixing no saving no need to explain Just stay just stay Everybody wants a witness someone chose to stay didn’t call the silence beautiful didn’t turn it into praise No fixing no performance no perfect words to say Just one pair of eyes still open that did not look away Don’t look away don’t look away Sometimes one is enough No applause no perfect phrase Just someone there when the song went quiet
