and lock all the doors
turn all the switches and flip all the lights
that will help you pretend you’ll be safe through the night.
Stare at the ceiling and try to sleep
I’ll come from the shadows and nip at your feet.
Pretend you don’t hear me
sitting here at your ear
singing that song that you’re longing to hear.
Keep trying to turn your mouth into a smile
and acting as if
you don’t feel me
keep seeing if laughing feels less like a chore
keep checking to see if you see me.
I’ll be just around every turn that you spin through
the faster you run, the sooner I’ll meet you.
Keeping moving slower and smoother toward dropping
slow down my love, there’s no shame in just stopping.
Just close your eyes and hand me your daytime,
we’ll slide comfortably into the infinite sidelines.
No need to be in there and out there and up there,
we’ll just sit quite steadily right here in the nowhere.
No one to force you from sick into well
No one will matter from under my spell.
keep seeing if laughing feels less like a chore
keep checking to see if you see me.
I’ll be just around every turn that you spin through
the faster you run, the sooner I’ll meet you.
Keeping moving slower and smoother toward dropping
slow down my love, there’s no shame in just stopping.
Just close your eyes and hand me your daytime,
we’ll slide comfortably into the infinite sidelines.
No need to be in there and out there and up there,
we’ll just sit quite steadily right here in the nowhere.
No one to force you from sick into well
No one will matter from under my spell.
