She’s Afraid of Letting Go

[Intro] She wore the weight of the night like a second skin… Yet somewhere beneath the dark a light was learning her name… Ooh ooh aaaaaah [Verse 1] All her life felt like a darkness you could reach out and touch One saving light was the poems someone left in the letterbox Little by little she started to see what those words had seen in her A light that never left, only grew quiet beneath the years of dark [Pre-Chorus] She opened the box one morning held the poem against her heart For the first time she wondered if the light she waited for had been waiting for her too [Chorus] She did not become who she was before She became someone the darkness could no longer own! Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh (Hey hey hey) No longer mistakes the night for her home! The quiet miracle is this— the night still returns but she no longer lives there! Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh (Na-na-na, na-na-na) [Verse 2] I did not come undone all at once No sudden tear, no sound of breaking Only a thread loosening at the edges unravelling beneath ordinary days The fabric held its shape for a while though the pattern thinned I watched the thread taper to a whisper so fine I could scarcely tell whether I was holding on or simply afraid of letting go [Chorus] She did not become who she was before She became someone the darkness could no longer own! Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh (Yeah yeah yeah yeah) No longer mistakes the night for her home! The quiet miracle is this— the night still returns but she no longer lives there! Oh—oh—oh, Oh—oh—oh Mmmmmmmm, hmmmmmmmmm [Bridge] The blood remembers what the mind cannot Moonlight spilling like spoiled milk Soft-hearted and exposed A wild creature begging for a place to lie down knowing the prayer will never be answered So she lies down on the cold soil lets the silence cover her lets the darkness keep her company until her body finally releases its grip Somewhere a door remains open… You cannot see what lies beyond it… For the first time you leave it that way [Final Chorus] She did not become who she was before! She became someone the darkness could no longer own! Oh-oh-oh! Oh-oh-oh! Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh! (Hey hey hey – na-na-na) The night still returns but she no longer lives there! The future remains unwritten the person beside you partly unknown And the deepest uncertainty is who we might become when we stop insisting we already know! [Outro] Oh-oh-oh… (la-la-la, la-la-la) Leave the door open… Leave the door open… Ooh, ooh, aaaaaah Mmmmmmmm…