[Verse 1] The door was open when I walked through No one closed it when he fell The corridor is breathing something older Than the prayers they used to sell Something scuttles in the upper shadow Something drags itself along the floor I have walked in dark my whole existence But I have never felt a dark like this before
[Pre-Chorus] And then — a pulse Like someone lit a candle somewhere west of here She’s coming She’s already near
[Chorus] I reached for dark and found a thread of white My hand went out and something blazing came to light I did not know what I was holding I did not know it would be bright But everything that moved toward me scattered And I stood there in the wreckage of my own new sight Corridors and spirals — I am learning on my feet Finding what I carry as I clear the path between
[Verse 2] I tried again and this time it was different The light did not burst out — it pulled and bent Like water learning which way it should travel I aimed it at the dark ahead and it went It left a warmth along the stairwell stonework A kind of light I have not carried in years I filed it somewhere quiet for remembering And kept on moving through the corridors and stairs
[Pre-Chorus] And then — a pulse Stronger now, she’s crossing something somewhere She’s coming She does not know what waits in here
[Chorus] I reached for dark and found a thread of white My hand went out and something blazing came to light I did not know what I was holding I did not know it would be bright But everything that moved toward me scattered And I stood there in the wreckage of my own new sight Corridors and spirals — I am learning on my feet Finding what I carry as I clear the path between
[Bridge] There are things in here she will not recognize Things that do not die the way that living things die Bone and chain and barb and something older Things that answer to a name above the sky I know this tower — I have been its prisoner I know the floors she has not seen yet coming in I have to reach the bottom before she does She cannot face what waits here without me standing in
[Final Chorus] I reached for dark and found a thread of white And then I reached for both and kept them in one fight I do not know the limits of this yet But I am learning fast and moving by the light Corridors and spirals — I am clearing what I can She is coming and I will not let her face this unprepared
[Outro] Every corridor is shorter than the last Every spiral brings me closer to the west I feel her at the threshold I am almost there This time I stand between her and the rest