[Verse 1] There are still times I catch me thinking I wonder what they’d say If they saw all the parts of me That lived beyond the break How I fought through every battle With you inside my head I heard your loving voices Still calling past the end [Pre-Chorus] I fought so hard To keep my skin To find a way To begin again Because somehow The bright paint cracks And every road Comes bending back [Chorus] Back to the bones, back to the base Back to the dark where we learned our names Dress us in daylight, cover the cracks We’ll always go back to black Back to the pulse, back to the ache Back to the parts we could never replace Call it a comfort, call it a trap We’ll always go back to black [Verse 2] I wore every borrowed color I learned to answer to new names I tried on a hundred futures Still woke up feeling the same I changed the chords, I changed the ending Drove the chorus off the track But every song I tried to bury Came up screaming dressed in black [Pre-Chorus] I ran so far I lost the road I built a life From letting go But somehow The bright paint cracks And every road Comes bending back [Chorus] Back to the bones, back to the base Back to the dark where we learned our names Dress us in daylight, cover the cracks We’ll always go back to black Back to the pulse, back to the ache Back to the parts we could never replace Call it a comfort, call it a trap We’ll always go back to black [Bridge] Maybe black was never empty Maybe black was where we grew The quiet underneath the feedback Where I could still hear you It wasn’t where they buried me It’s where I stayed alive Not the ending, not the absence It was there the whole damn time [Breakdown] So kill the lights And count us in Black isn’t where we ended Black is where we begin [Final Chorus] Back to the bones, back to the base Back to the dark where we learned our names Dress us in daylight, cover the cracks We’ll always go back to black Back to the pulse, back to the ache Back to the voices that death couldn’t take Call it a comfort, call it a trap We’ll always go back to black [Outro] Back! To the noise Back! To the ache Back to the parts of us The years could never take When the colors crack We come screaming back We always— We always— WE ALWAYS Go back to black
