I found the boy inside a church
Counting saints with shaking hands
Like stolen little soldiers
Only he could understand
He said the rooms were full of strangers
With their wounds still speaking through
Every time the temperature fell
Another dead soul came into view
I wanted a reason
I wanted a way to see
He said the dead still wander
They don’t know what they need
You only see what you want to see
A braking love, not a wife who grieves
A child in the dark says the dead don’t leave
They walk like us through the room unseen
They don’t know, they have a need
Hear the boy and believe
I played the old tape over
Heard the room begin to plead
A voice beneath the quiet
Begging not to leave
I had called it fear and damage
I had called the boy unwell
Till the dead spoke through the static
From a patient I had failed
I stopped naming shadows
I stopped calling it fear
If the dead were reaching for him
Then I had to learn to hear
You only see what you want to see
A braking love, not a wife who grieves
A child in the dark says the dead don’t leave
They walk like us through the room unseen
They don’t know, they have a need
Hear the boy and believe
She sleeps in the blue light
With my ring in her hand
Our younger faces flicker
From a life that slipped my hand
I thought quiet was anger
Thought the door was stuck
I thought the chair was waiting
Thought love had given up
The ring hits the floor
And the room says my name
The ring hits the floor
And I remember the pain
I LEFT BEFORE I KNEW
I STAYED TO FOLLOW THROUGH
I THOUGHT I CAME TO HELP
BUT I WAS HAUNTING TOO
I only saw what I wanted to see
A wife gone cold, a world without me
A child in the dark set a dead man free
A room full of ghosts, and one of them was me
Now I know, I had a need
Hear the boy and believe