You always reach for the lamp At the exact same moment Like it matters more to you Than kissing me does You laugh softly when I mention it Say everything feels stronger in the dark And maybe it does But sometimes your hands feel distracted Even when your voice sounds loving I keep trying to memorize you Through fragments The shape of your shoulder The smell of whiskey on your shirt The way your breathing changes Right before you say my name But I still don’t know What your face looks like When you really mean something Truth in the dark Tell me what survives when I can’t see your eyes Truth in the dark Are we touching each other Or just touching loneliness at the same time? Last night I opened my eyes And watched shadows move across the ceiling You pulled me closer But something inside me stayed awake I wondered if you were imagining someone else Then hated myself for thinking it You kissed my neck Like apologies arrive there easiest The strange thing is I don’t tell you my truths either There are parts of me I hide carefully behind silence Maybe relationships survive Because nobody looks directly for too long Maybe love is just two people Protecting each other from full exposure Truth in the dark Maybe that’s why you keep the room this way Truth in the dark If you saw all of me clearly Would you still reach for me the same? Sometimes I think you’re hiding from me Sometimes I think you’re hiding with me Truth in the dark I keep searching your voice for something real Truth in the dark Maybe neither of us are lying Maybe neither of us fully know how we feel
