Shadows Dancing on a Bedroom Wall

Before you, ward-off ember white

Bedside table waiting light

Burning through a midnight thunder storm

But the convenient ingenuity

Of manmade electricity

Can't compete with lightnings natural form

So when the darkness's not my doing

I pull a match across the brittle black

Strip of friction crackeling to life

And a candle stands its guard against

This sudden void of nothingness

Fighting back against the tide o' night

And I can see

That we

Were shadows dancing on a bedroom wall

I can see

That we were never real at all

The outline of the almost missed

We both timidly dismissed

Always blurred the edge of our demise

And a kiss disguised in Cold War coat

Designed to hide the unexposed

Truth we missed to bluff for pretty lies

And I can see

That we

Were shadows dancing on a bedroom wall

And I can see

So clearly

There's nothing we could do

To escape the second fall

Oh I can see

That we were never real at all

I say the wax don't go deeper than the surface

Mhm

No expression to show you where the hurt is

Just a vague idea of why it wasn't working

Mhm

I still wish it would've worked

And I can see

That we

Were shadows dancing on a bedroom wall

I can see

That we were never real at all