Ash in the Afterglow - What The Dark Keeps - Heavy Metal

[Verse 1]
I fold your sweater
Place it back on the chair
Still holds your outline
Still smells like your hair
Every quiet corner
Argues you’re not gone
But the dust on the picture frame
Keeps proving me wrong

[Pre-Chorus]
I used to fear the dark
Now I just fear the dawn
Another day you’re missing
Another page torn

[Chorus]
If I burn
Let me burn in your shape
Let my name be a shadow
That falls where you stand safe
If I break
Let the cracks spell your rhyme
I will carve you in my choices
Leave you living in my lines
When the world comes for our love
You’re the scar I leave behind

[Verse 2]
Your letters in a shoebox
Ink bled to a blur
I mouth the faded phrases
Like I’m praying your words
You said
“Promise you’ll be kinder
To the person you become”
I’m still learning how to carry you
Without coming undone

[Pre-Chorus]
Every road I choose
Rewrites who you were
So I walk a little straighter
For the both of us
Yeah

[Chorus]
If I burn
Let me burn in your shape
Let my name be a shadow
That falls where you stand safe
If I break
Let the cracks spell your rhyme
I will carve you in my choices
Leave you living in my lines
When the world comes for our love
You’re the scar I leave behind

[Bridge]
This love is a glass house
And the stones are in their hands
But I’ll stand in the doorway
Bleeding where I stand
If they tear down these walls
If they salt all our ground
You’ll still live in the echo
In the vows I never spoke out loud

[Chorus]
If I burn
Let me burn in your shape
Let my heart be the altar
Where your memory stays safe
If I break
Let the cracks spell your rhyme
Every fault line in my body
Traces back to your light
When the world comes for our love
You’re the scar I leave behind
You’re the scar
I choose to leave behind