now i lay me down to sleep
i pray you take these tears i weep
oh these shadows that grow and stalk
tracing lines out of souls and talk

oh rest you have long been gone
everything is right and wrong
such is this that i would lay
upon these words where i have no say

that you would want me as i am
nothing else, what a foolish man
step away, i beg of you to run
leave me before the rising of the sun

she is a fool, and you want her still
but she is not able to bend her will
tell her such and she will deny all
but say her name and will answer the call

let her be, though never alone
the one star in the sky that still shone
when all among the dark of the abyss
calls to her like a final wish

catch her hand as she is on the edge
a wanderer just to find such a ledge
the wind pushing just to pull her down
put your heart into the earth and ground

let its roots grow to a tree
so that such a fool could see
you are love, and this is life
filled with bits of grace and strife

she says but a few things, just a word
though whispered they are still heard
you want me, i need you to need me
the way a heart needs to be free