Psychopomp

[Intro] [Clean delayed guitar and deep bass drone. Sparse drums enter slowly. Whispered vocal.] You always come when the room goes quiet Standing where the shadows meet Silver light around your shoulders Barefoot at the edge of sleep [Verse 1] Every night you move a little closer Every night I know your face Like I've loved you somewhere else before this In another time and place You never speak above a whisper Never tell me what you are Just reach for me with patient fingers Like you've followed me this far [Pre-Chorus] The world grows distant The ceiling fades Your hand is warm against my skin [Chorus] Psychopomp Put your hand over my eyes If I'm already leaving... Don't let me realize Psychopomp Hold me like the tide holds rain If I'm slipping from this world... Don't make me stay awake [Verse 2] Morning finds me barely breathing Sheets still twisted in your shape Every mirror keeps your secret Every doorway feels the same I should fear the way you watch me The way you wait beside my bed But there's comfort in your silence Like you've heard every word unsaid [Pre-Chorus] The room grows softer The lights grow dim Your fingertips beneath my chin [Chorus] Psychopomp Put your hand over my eyes If I'm already leaving... Don't let me realize Psychopomp Draw the curtains, dim the sky If this is the final moment... Stay with me tonight [Bridge] [Heavy guitars bloom beneath layered vocals.] Maybe I've been dying slowly Maybe you've been here for years Every sleepless night beside me Every strange and quiet fear Maybe love and death are sisters Maybe both wear the same face Maybe heaven looks like falling Into your gentle embrace [Final Chorus] Psychopomp Put your hand over my eyes If I'm already leaving... Don't let me realize Psychopomp Take me somewhere I can rest And if you are the end of all things... Then let me love you yet [Outro] [Instruments slowly dissolve into ambience.] You were standing in the doorway... Long before I knew your name...