15. Dragantius Personal Background Story

[Opening] I was born in the in-between Where the moon won’t take a side And the dawn forgets my shape [Intro] I learned the language of the seam Where prayer and pocket change both lean On the same chipped table And both keep watching me [Pre-Verse] I kept my wounds in locked-up rooms I kept my truth in paper blooms If you knew what I had seen You’d know why I move unseen [Verse] My mother said, “Be careful, son” The world will praise you, then tell you run My father left a colder house So I made my own way out I knew the ache of being split Half a promise, half a quit Half a candle in the wind Half a scar I lived in The mirrors never told me straight They showed the saint, then flashed the snake So I met them eye to eye And built a heart that wouldn’t break [Pre-Chorus] I’m not a saint, I’m not a lie I’m the line between the black and white If you call my name, I’ll still remain In the shadow and the flame [Chorus] I, I I move where the living hush I, I I belong to the dusk and dust Hold the dark, hold the light I was cut for the in-between I, I That’s the only place I’ve been [Verse] I carried grief like river stone Cold in my palm, but mine alone I learned to kneel without a church I learned to bleed and not get loud about it I found mercy in the cracked In the things that don’t come back In the voice that says, “Stay here” When the whole room leans to fear So if I look you in the eye I’m not asking you to certify Every fractured thing I am I’m just trying to be a man [Pre-Chorus] I’m not a saint, I’m not a lie I’m the line between the black and white If you call my name, I’ll still remain In the shadow and the flame [Chorus] I, I I move where the living hush I, I I belong to the dusk and dust Hold the dark, hold the light I was cut for the in-between I, I That’s the only place I’ve been [Bridge] And if the heavens lock their doors I will not beg, I will not crawl I’ve made a home inside the storm I’ve learned to stand through all of it I am the wound and the cure I am the question I endure I am the thread that won’t divide I am the veil, I am the light [Outro] I If you find me, find me whole In the mercy of my shadow In the ache beneath my bones I Say it once and let it fade I was never made to vanish I was born to walk the gray [End] I