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Mmm-mm mmmm-mmm

Eeh-eeh eeh-eeh ×2

PW-MUSIC.....

Mm-mm-mm mm-mm Eeh-eeh

[Verse 1]

I’m tracing the patterns of the ceiling fan in the dark

Watching the way the streetlights leave their glowing mark

On the walls of this room where we’ve hidden away from the world

But the silence is heavy, and the banners of peace are unfurled.

You’re breathing so steady, like you don’t feel the shift in the air

But I’ve been reading the tea leaves, and I know there’s a storm out there.

We’ve been living in a paper house, painted in gold and blue

But the rain is coming for the windows, and I’m reaching out for you.

I’ve got this hollow ache starting to bloom inside my chest

A premonition of a winter that’s gonna put us to the test.

[Pre-Chorus]

And they say that time is a healer, but I think it’s a thief

Taking the moments of calm and replacing them with grief.

I can feel the floorboards shaking, I can hear the sky start to cry

And I just need to know we aren't saying goodbye.

[Chorus]

The clouds are bruising purple, and the tide is pulling back from the shore

I don’t think we’re gonna be the same people we were before.

The world is getting louder, and the shadows are growing so tall

I’m terrified of the heights, and I’m terrified of the fall.

Life may be difficult tomorrow, promise me that you will be with me shoulder to shoulder?

Promise me we won't get colder as the days get older.

Just stay right here, let the chaos scream and the fires smolder

As long as you’re standing with me, shoulder to shoulder.

[Verse 2]

Do you remember the June nights when the sun never seemed to set?

We were invincible then, a couple of kids with no regrets.

Now the ink on the maps is running, and the roads are all washed out

And I’m drowning in the "maybe’s" and the "what if’s" and the doubt.

I’ve seen the way the world breaks people down to the bone

Leaving them shivering in the wreckage, standing all alone.

I don’t care about the money, or the house, or the hollow fame

I just want to know that when I wake up, you’ll still say my name.

The headlines are screaming, and the wind is rattling the glass

Tell me this is a season, tell me that this too shall pass.

[Pre-Chorus]

Because they say that time is a healer, but I think it’s a thief

Taking the beauty we planted and turning it into leaf-littered grief.

I can feel the foundation cracking, I can hear the wolves at the gate

And I’m asking for a promise before it’s too late.

[Chorus]

The clouds are bruising purple, and the tide is pulling back from the shore

I don’t think we’re gonna be the same people we were before.

The world is getting louder, and the shadows are growing so tall

I’m terrified of the heights, and I’m terrified of the fall.

Life may be difficult tomorrow, promise me that you will be with me shoulder to shoulder?

Promise me we won't get colder as the days get older.

Just stay right here, let the chaos scream and the fires smolder

As long as you’re standing with me, shoulder to shoulder.

[Bridge]

[The music swells, strings become urgent]

It’s not the pain I’m afraid of, it’s the empty space in the bed

It’s the things that’ll go unrecorded and the words that’ll stay unsaid.

If the sky falls down, let it fall on both of us at once

I’ve been practicing my bravery for months and months and months.

But I’m fragile at the edges, and I’m brittle in the core

I need you to be the anchor when I can’t see the shore anymore!

Don't let me drift! Don't let me go!

In the middle of the "I don't know"...

[Chorus]

[Music drops out to just a heartbeat pulse, then builds back up]

Life may be difficult tomorrow, promise me that you will be with me shoulder to shoulder?

Promise me we won't get colder as the days get older.

Just stay right here, let the chaos scream and the fires smolder

As long as you’re standing with me, shoulder to shoulder.

[Outro]

Shoulder to shoulder...

[The piano fades to a single note]

The sun might not rise, but I’ll be looking for you.

In the difficult tomorrow...

Just say you'll be there.

Shoulder to shoulder.

Promise me?

[Fade to silence]