[Verse 1]
Your voice used to paint the morning, now it’s thin like cigarette smoke
The coffee cup you left is cold, your song keeps playing, stuck on one spoke
I lie awake, the night won’t let me sleep — the clock is eating time
You talk so much less than always, and my hands tremble with the climb
[Pre-Chorus]
My dragon wakes and smashes mirrors, spits out every small-light lie
It steals the warmth from empty sheets and tucks itself where daylight dies
A darker wish claws at my throat, I feel the black press in and bite
I feel no one can pull me back to light — I’m slipping from the right
[Chorus]
Keep me from the dark — keep me from the dark
Don’t let the dragon have this heart
Keep me from the dark — keep me from the dark
Hold the spark before it falls apart
[Verse 2]
Used and bruised, I hand you pieces that you fold into your coat
You used to hum the bridge of our song, now silence carries every note
Old ghosts line up in the doorway, tell me I’ll be left again
I see my past in the mirror-glass — everyone goes, no one stays then
[Pre-Chorus]
My dragon curls around my heartbeat, smashes frames of who I used to be
It claws at the photograph of us, it silences the way you used to breathe
A darker wish claws at my throat, its shadow’s teeth are dressed in spite
I’m barely holding on to calm, but sometimes calm feels like a fight
[Chorus]
Keep me from the dark — keep me from the dark
Don’t let the dragon have this heart
Keep me from the dark — keep me from the dark
Hold the spark before it falls apart
[Bridge]
(Instrumental rise — guitars cut sharp, heartbeat snare)
The dragon drags my daylight to the gutter, rips the melody from my chest
It steals the laugh we traded at midnight, smashes every mirror of success
For a moment it wins — I taste iron, cold breath over everything I knew
I almost let it pull me under; the world thins down to black and you
[Bridge Vocal]
A storm inside becomes a warning: I should be ash, I should concede
But a smaller, stubborn ember stays, and something in me still believes
A darker wish claws at my throat — I say the words to hold it in
"I won’t let it win," whispering like rope against the spin
[Chorus — Final]
Keep me from the dark — keep me from the dark
Don’t let the dragon have this heart
Keep me from the dark — keep me from the dark
Hold the spark before it falls apart
[Outro]
I lie awake, the night won’t let me sleep, the dragon tucks into my bones
If you stay, you might see me falter — if you stay, you might bring me home
I feel no one can pull me back to light, but maybe, maybe you can start
So say the thing that fixes mornings — stay and keep me from the dark
