[Intro, Guitar Wall Swells From Silence, Distant and Cold] I hear the door of daylight opening [Verse 1, Ascent, Guitar Tremolo Building Underneath] I follow the sound of your hesitation Counting each step like a constellation The dark behind me thins into sensation Light arriving like your invitation I hear you slow like a doubt is dividing Your shadow stalls where the light is deciding I feel my name start to leave your believing Before the word's even finished conceiving [Chorus, Wall of Sound Crests, Ethereal Lead Vocal Soaring] YOU LOOKED BACK And the light released its permission Every step reversed to superstition Every hope dissolved to intuition YOU LOOKED BACK And I'm falling out of your vision [Verse 2, The Pull Backward, Colder and Heavier] The cold comes back like a recognition My blood remembers its old condition The surface fades to a suspicion Something I mistook for a vision Every root that wraps around my ankle Every step I lose, the shadows tangle I used to think our love could be a sentence Now it's just my endless repentance [Chorus, Identical to First Pass] YOU LOOKED BACK And the light released its permission Every step reversed to superstition Every hope dissolved to intuition YOU LOOKED BACK And I'm falling out of your vision [Bridge, Hushed, Single Guitar Note Ringing, Voice Almost Breaking] "I know why you couldn't wait" "I never could either" Love was too loud to trust the silence It had to look, and so it lost me [Instrumental Surge, Guitar Wall Crests to Full Wall of Sound, Wordless Vocal Wail Riding Above] [Final Chorus, One Word Moves] I LOOKED BACK And the light released its permission Every step reversed to superstition Every hope dissolved to intuition I LOOKED BACK And I'm falling out of your vision [Outro, Guitar Wall Recedes to a Single Ringing Note, Voice Fading to a Whisper] (barely audible) I'd have looked too
