I walk where the light falls out of sight Not afraid of the quiet night There’s something here that knows my name Soft as ash, but not the same The dark is not what I outrun It’s where I breathe when day is done It holds me close, it lets me be More than what the light could see And I don’t need to find my way Every step is where I stay There’s a fire low and deep In the ground beneath my feet chorus I am held by the dark, I don’t fall It carries the weight of it all In the silence I finally hear There’s nothing in me I should fear I am held by the night, I don’t break Every step is mine to take There’s a flame that quietly stays Through the night and all my days I don’t run from what I feel Every shadow makes it real Not a wound, not something gone But a place I’m standing on And the road moves slow through me Not ahead, but underneath Every turn, a deeper thread Between the living and the dead Held by the dark, I let it in Not an end, not a begin Just a space where I belong Quiet, steady, deep and strong And the fire, it doesn’t fade Even here in shadowed shade It lives in me, it stays, it’s true In the dark, I’m carried through
