🖤Keep Me Awake💙👄

Verse 1 There is a light under my eyelids small as a match in a locked room I keep it there so I can answer when the dark starts asking too soon My hands are calm but they are leaving my name is thin inside my mouth If there is someone still awake somewhere tell them I have not gone out Chorus Keep me awake but hold me gently let me drift but not too far If I sleep come near and find me by the small light inside my heart Verse 2 I hear the world in broken pieces wire and weather through the wall someone laughing in another kitchen someone missing someone’s call I try to hold one ordinary thing bread on a plate a coat by the door but every memory turns to water and every room moves from the shore Bridge ...north wind... ...visibility poor... Chorus Keep me awake but hold me gently let me drift but not too far If I sleep come near and find me by the small light inside my heart Verse 3 The cold has learned to speak politely it calls me child it calls me home It lays its hand across my forehead and tells me I am not alone I know that voice I must not follow I know that room is not a room Still it smells of milk and linen still it opens like a bloom Bridge Do not let me make a heaven out of anything that ends Do not let me trust the silence when it wears a mother’s hands I am tired but I am listening I am fading but I know somewhere past this gentle darkness there is still a road back home Chorus Keep me awake but hold me gently let me drift but not too far If I sleep come near and find me by the small light inside my heart Keep me awake but keep me breathing let me dream but hold the door If I fall speak through the weather till I remember what I’m fighting for