Holding

I hear you calling and I wanna go

Run straight into the valleys of your arms and disappear there

And I know my love could fail you

'Cause in a clearing when the sunlight comes

Exposing all the shadows in our intricate behavior

I see a sort of fading

We build our own unfolding

It's in the morning when the sadness comes

The tears fall down in patterns on the windows

And our shape is undone

You only wanted holding

I let my structure fail you

You know, I watched as it unfolded

And in the image of the other hand

A needle drawing pictures in the blood that runs the valley

Your honesty engraves me

Stay the line

The pain of it's derailing

And in the water

Where a mirror opens up

To show the gravity of non-repeating patterns

When no one else can hold you

Come in and then unfold you

Oh, the lines I'm laying just to hold you

It's in the evening when the moonlight comes

Illuminating silver in the rivers as they run into the sea

The beauty of their failure

As the tides erase their lining

There's nothing left to hold to