Lay Me Down

A shadow in the field where the crows won't go

There's a darkness in the world I don't remember.

A moth lands soft on the edge of my throat

A corner of my mind begins to flutter

I walk like the light isn’t touching my skin

Leave no sound but the trees still shiver

Not quite ghost, but surely not flesh

My heart beat runs like the river

Lay me down in the candle’s sigh

Sing me back with a lullaby

If I wake, don’t tell me how

I came undone beneath the vow

Now, a valley of fog, all my past is gone

Yet roots hold blood down six feet deep

I strike a match but it burns in reverse

A flame that forgets what it means to keep

This mirror won't blink, won't show my face

No, my words won't fog the glass

Lost, oh lost in this dream so deep

Now I live where the memory passed

Lay me down in the candle’s sigh

Sing me back with a lullaby

If I wake, don’t tell me how

I came undone beneath the vow

My heart was warm once

I think I was loved

Now I can't remember

The warmth of the sun

Lay me down in the candle’s sigh

Name me not just let me lie

In the space between the thread and seam

Where I am whole inside the dream

Lay me down in the candle’s sigh

Name me not just let me lie

In the space between the thread and seam

Where I am whole inside the dream