Bluebird in the Dark

 

[Verse 1]
I am a bluebird on a midnight flight,
The wind keeps calling me into the night.
You rise from the veil where the lost dreams start,
With sorrow like thunder folded in your heart.

This night is a bitter and beautiful wine,
I drink it slowly, one drop at a time.
Your shadow flickers like a burned-out film,
Caught between what was and what might have been.

[Pre-Chorus]
Our house went dark like a drowned-out flame,
The garden grew thorns where we once knew your name.
Still, beneath the ruin, through the rain and the years,
My heart keeps beating so you can hear.

[Chorus]
Wait, don’t fly away, stay here with me,
While the moon rocks the world on a silver sea.
I’ll build you a bed from the clouds overhead,
So the cold won’t claim you, so you won’t fall dead.

Give me your hand, let the lost roads bend,
We’ll go where the bridges don’t break in the end.
If the wind tears open the sky above,
I’ll follow your shadow through the wreckage of love.

[Verse 2]
The river has swallowed the trail of your feet,
And time sealed the roads where our memories meet.
I see us below in the moon’s pallid glow,
Two ghosts in a photograph no one can show.

The moon hangs above like the eye of the world,
Counting the years that were never unfurled.
In its pale ark, your outline turns white,
A constellation dissolving in light.

And memory hands me a ticket once more,
To a vanished departure, a long-closed shore.
I step on that ship, though I know where it ends,
To the place where you knew me before we were strangers.

[Pre-Chorus]
But tenderness froze at the bottom of the stream,
And faith went under with the wreck of a dream.
I call through the circles, the silence, the blue,
But night folds my voice away from you.

[Chorus]
Wait, don’t fly away, stay here with me,
While the moon rocks the world on a silver sea.
I’ll build you a bed from the clouds overhead,
So the cold won’t claim you, so you won’t fall dead.

Give me your hand, let the lost roads bend,
We’ll go where the bridges don’t break in the end.
If the wind tears open the sky above,
I’ll follow your shadow through the wreckage of love.

[Bridge]
Oh, Lord, give me strength for the final ascent,
To rise from the ashes of all that was spent.
To open my eyes, to wake from the blue,
To release what I couldn’t hold on to.

You loosen your fingers and let my hand go,
Was it that you couldn’t, or chose to do so?
Separation marches with merciless feet,
And pulls our two heartbeats out of the same street.

[Electro-Swing Break]
Tick-tock, iron mouths in the wall,
Boom-boom, hear the rain start to fall.
Tick-tock, let the old bridges rise,
No-no, I won’t believe silence lies.

Boom-boom, let the dark roll on,
I keep your echo when the voice is gone.
As long as this heart has a spark left to prove,
I will burn, I will fly, I will love, I will move.

[Final Chorus]
Wait, don’t fly away, stay here with me,
Till dawn washes stars from the edge of the sea.
Let the whole world crumble, let the rooftops fall,
I will carry your light through the ruins of it all.

Give me your hand for one moment more,
Let love be stronger than the closing door.
We couldn’t save each other from falling apart,
But you left your weather inside my heart.

And if the wind calls me back to the blue,
I’ll rise over winter, over sorrow, over you.
I am a bluebird, and though I must roam,
Every flight I take still remembers your home.

[Outro]
Outside, the snow writes its name on the glass,
Inside, old storms are learning to pass.
Dust on my wings, but a fire in my chest—
Love didn’t vanish. It changed where it rests.

I am a bluebird beneath a dark sky,
Still carrying your light as I learn how to fly.