Pray You Stay

I've known loud nights and empty mornings

Rooms that echoed when love was gone

I've worn strong like a second skin

Carried more than I should've for too long

Then you came in soft as mercy

No big thunder, no grand parade

Just your hand finding mine in the quiet

And all that noise just fell away

You don't ask for my pieces

You don't turn from my ache

You just love me so gently

It scares me in the best way

So I pray you'll stay

Through the dark, through the doubt

Through the weight of my days

When I'm less than my best

When the hurt finds its way

When the world gets cold

And I got nothing pretty left to say

I pray you'll stay

Like a light in a window

Like a hymn in the aid

Like the kind of love a broken man

Don't know how to name

If heaven hears me at all

If heaven works that way

Then tonight with all I am

I pray

I pray you'll stay

I pray

I pray

You love me in the worn out places

The tide in my eyes

The miles in my soul

You don't need me shining

You just pull me close and call me home

And I've had plans all come unraveled

Watched old dreams go up like smoke

So forgive me if I hold this gently

Like something I'm afraid to hold

Cause you don't fix me with lightning

You don't save me with flame

You just sit in the silence

And somehow I change

So I pray you'll stay

Through the dark, through the doubt

Through the weight of my days

When I'm less than my best

When the hurt finds its way

When the world gets cold

And I got nothing pretty left to say

I pray you'll stay

Like a light in a window

Like a hymn in the aid