[Intro] [low distorted bass] [female voice, close, almost spoken] I don’t need the whole story. I can read enough in the way you stand near the exit. [Verse 1] Paint on your skin and iron in your teeth Old red lines where the hurt runs deep You laugh like a knife with a broken blade Still sharp enough to keep the world afraid You wear your anger like a second face A warning sign in a ruined place But I have seen, beneath the war, Something waiting at the door [Pre-Chorus] You keep your back to the safest wall Hear every whisper like a warning call When the room turns gentle, you look for the door As if softness had betrayed you before [Chorus] I won’t name your fear I won’t make it mine I won’t cross the line You draw in your mind But if you run in the dark I will leave on a light Not to follow Not to claim you Just to show you the night Is not always a fight [Verse 2] You learned the street by sound and smell Which steps meant shelter, which steps meant hell You learned to swallow what you could not say And turn your hunger into yesterday There’s smoke in your mouth and gold in your grin A little lost thunder under your skin You make a joke, you turn away Before the real words find their way [Pre-Chorus] You keep your back to the safest wall Hear every kindness like a warning call When the room turns gentle, you look for the door As if softness had betrayed you before [Chorus] I won’t name your fear I won’t make it mine I won’t cross the line You draw in your mind But if you run in the dark I will leave on a light Not to follow Not to claim you Just to show you the night Is not always a fight [Bridge] I won’t ask you to be healed I won’t ask you to be clean I won’t ask where you have been Or what the bruises mean I know rage can be a shelter I know silence can be skin But know some doors stay open Without asking you in [Break] [spoken, intimate, almost whispered] No trap. No cure. No holy hand. No promise I can make you understand. Only this: the fire is low, the room is wide, and nothing here will hunt you tonight. (But I want you, I want you so much) [Final Chorus] I won’t name your fear I won’t make it mine I won’t cross the line You draw in your mind But if you come from the dark With your teeth still bright I will know you I will know you By the way you stride And if you run in the dark I will leave on a light Not to follow Not to claim you Just to show you the night Is not always a fight [Outro] [female voice, fading] When the room turns gentle, you look for the door. So I leave it open.
