Borrowed Light

Lyrics

Verse 1
You learned to walk on eggshells
Counting every single breath
Turned your heart into a mirror
For people who never once looked back
They called you too much
Too quiet
Too strange to be believed
So you carved your name in silence
And let their names live in your teeth

Chorus
I keep giving you my borrowed light
You just stand there
Staring past me
Take my time
My things
My tired eyes
Leave me emptier
Yet you ask me
If I know I'm just a passing thought
A number in your phone at night
Yeah
I know it
But I’m so damn lost
I keep letting you stay
For a little borrowed light

Verse 2
My mind runs like a stray dog
Chasing every moving car
Every word feels like a landmine
Every laugh a hidden scar
I show up when you call me
With a smile I had to sew
You take what makes me human
And you leave before it shows

Chorus
I keep giving you my borrowed light
You just stand there
Staring past me
Take my time
My things
My tired eyes
Leave me emptier
Yet you ask me
If I know I'm just a passing thought
A number in your phone at night
Yeah
I know it
But I’m so damn lost
I keep letting you stay
For a little borrowed light

Bridge
[Cello and fiddle swell softly under the vocal]
I grew up in a hall of mirrors
Where love meant learning how to shrink
Where praise was painted poison
And I was punished if I’d think
So now I kneel before your hunger
Like it’s some old sacred rite
Say
“Take it
Take it
Take it all”
Just don’t leave me
Alone with my own mind tonight (oh)

Chorus
I keep giving you my borrowed light
You just stand there
Staring past me
Take my time
My things
My tired eyes
Leave me emptier
Yet you ask me
If I know I'm just a passing thought
A number in your phone at night
Yeah
I know it
But I’m so damn lost
That I open up my hands
And I watch you walk across
Every boundary I can't fight
For a little borrowed light