You turned your face And called it fate Left me counting ceiling cracks At 2am Chewed-up letters Under my bed Every word a little cut That never bled I used to beg the empty sky For just one answer Just one sign But silence held me in its hands And I learned how to stand I won't drown for a heart that never beat for me There is more than one heartbeat in this body I found love in the burn In the breaking day In the roar of the world that never walks away I won't kneel to a ghost that never knew my name My life's the only flame that stays Coffee steam On winter glass Stray dog sleeping By my feet Mom calls laughing Through the static Tiny halos In the heat All the little Living things Stitched my torn-out edges in I stopped chasing what you hid And loved the life I'm in I loved you like You were the Sun Till I burned and Came undone But there's fire In my friends' loud rooms In late-night drives In flowers on tombs In busted knuckles In midnight runs In every breath My tired lungs Still drag like metal Through the storm That hurt was ash But I was born