[Verse 1]

You are sleeping in the room alone now

You are restless in the night

When the lightning from the storm strikes

You shine

For a second

In the light

I wait

For a moment when the weather breaks

I can feel you in the mattress shake

I can see the way an old pain holds you

Morning falling in the frame

You stay down



[Verse 2]

I faced my failure, in no way I escaped it

In the calm before a breakdown takes

Like a rapture in the night

You fight hard

I faced my own pain in no way I embraced it

In the bedroom with the door locked tight

Like a coward when the flash burns bright

I'll hide



[Chorus 1]

Your hands burnt on the torch's flame

Lighting the path away

Brighter than lightning and burning

Striking the ground

We spend summers awake

We shake at shadow shapes

The wind, it rattles our chains

We're always turning around



[Verse 3]

You were standing in the doorway

You were staring in the flames

How the fire from the house next door mixed

With the colors from the cop cars

I saw

Neighbors gathered in the alleyway

In the summer, in the heat

I wait for a way that I can chase your pain out

Gather water for the flames

I wait



[Bridge]

Nights we both shook

Any noise echoed in our room

Rattled on the floor like shells scattering

Or like hail falling on the hood of our car

Do you remember that drive south?

Coastbound, just us two

Savannah west in the mirror

And winter in rearview, burning

How the storm fell so harshly

We felt swallowed

And traffic stopped before

And behind us

Hard rain in sheets grey

And unbroken

Hazards flashed dimly

In all directions

Like small satellites

Or like lighthouse beacons

We turned the radio off

I gripped the wheel tight

When the storm burst and clouds split

Suddenly open to the sky

All colors at once and us dumbstruck

With love and terror and both

As if before us stood temples

Ancient and terrifying

The light refracting truth

To see death and life in all things



[Chorus 2]

Your hands burnt on the torch's flame

I was the last to change

Strike me like a lightning bolt and burning me down

Your hands burnt on the torch's flame

I was the last to change

Strike me like a lightning bolt and burning me down

The wind rattles our chains

We shake our fists at the pain

We shake at shadow shapes

We cup our hands in the storm

And watch our houses burning

We catch the rain to fight it