[Verse 1] I have walked a thousand heather miles Beneath a thousand fading skies I have sung the lost back to their homes And kept no hearth of my own But tonight the hollow holds a fire And faces turned toward the flame And something in my chest remembers A feeling with no name [Pre-Chorus] There is a guardian with rose-lit wings Who pretends she needs no one And a girl of lilac watching her Like she's the only sun There is a dark-winged one who stands apart And tries to be unseen But his eyes keep finding something here He cannot name, between [Chorus] Oh, let me stay a little longer In this light that asks nothing of me For once I am not singing into darkness I am only here and here is enough There are no lost ones calling through the mist tonight There is only this, this fire, these faces, this hush Oh, let me stay Let me stay [Verse 2] She who guards the veil has not yet eaten Her hands still carry someone else's fear The dark-winged one has set his burden sideways The way you set a stone down just to rest And the girl with lilac wings has stopped her watching Long enough to lean against the night And I feel their grief the way I feel the weather From the inside, warm and bright [Pre-Chorus] We are all of us the ones who give too freely We are all of us the ones who hold too much We are all of us the ones who learned too early What the world costs, what it costs, what it costs [Chorus] Oh, let me stay a little longer In this light that asks nothing of me For once I am not singing into darkness I am only here and here is enough There are no lost ones calling through the mist tonight There is only this, this fire, these faces, this hush Oh, let me stay Let me stay [Bridge] Look at her, the guardian, the dawn-winged one Sitting with her bow hand open for the first time She does not know I see it She does not know it's rare And beside her, oh, the lilac-winged, the little one Who carries all our sorrows in those green-gold eyes She has finally stopped reaching She is simply breathing there And the dark-winged one, the edge-walker, the quiet one Who came on duty and has somehow stayed till now His wings are folded inward Like a secret finding ground And I, I am the wanderer, the ember-winged, the forgetting one And I am looking at the only thing I've ever found That I would choose to carry If I could choose what stays [Chorus] Oh, let me stay a little longer In this light that asks nothing of me For once I am not singing into darkness I am only here and here is enough There are no lost ones calling through the mist tonight There is only this, this fire, these faces, this hush Oh, let me stay Oh, let me stay [Outro] I will not remember this tomorrow The fire, the faces, the hush But tonight I will have known it And tonight is enough Tonight is enough
