Shadow

Let the cherry blossoms fall on me

Must I swing alone, long from my favorite tree?

Is what I thought

Until I looked under me

There, floating in silent mimicry

With hummingbird grace

With featureless face, a lively ghost of the grass

You, who've always been a family friend

That I have never really been alone, I think

Shadow

Once locked inside a trunk behind the family tree

Shadow

Some lost beneath the blue and green sea

Now that I blew the candles out

I crawl deep inside of you

I've learned how love is scared of light

Yet it flows free in you

Oh shadow

Take me away from here

Blow your blackened kiss on my cheek

Let me reek of the night

When I flounder in light

Let me reek of the night

The night I blew the candles out

I crawled the insides of you

Love burns, I once shared of light

And I'll turn free for you

So shadow

Take me away from here

Blow your blackened kiss on my cheek

Let me reek of the night

When I flounder in light

Let me reek of the night

When I flounder in light

I'm a fish on the sandbar

Beneath the sun

Though I too am in the dark about the whys of wanting you

I started in the womb

I'll end up in the tomb

Beloved shadow

I'm scared of in-between times

Gonna dig the deepest coal mine

That's where you'll find my shadow

My shadow, my shadow