Lyrics

Should the dark ever boast it can swallow your ember whole
remember this: you are no stray spark meant to die in silence
you are the hush that bares its teeth inside the void
the hidden blade that hums beneath your ribs warm and waiting to cut
Your scars are constellations stitched into the throat of oblivion
photographs the night can never burn away
They are proof you stayed when silence begged you to vanish
proof that ghosts fail to claim you every time they come whispering
Your shadows do not rattle me
I have trespassed graveyards deeper than your dread
and older phantoms have learned to flinch when they glimpse my grin
where the hush stands guard
I will remind you softly daily even if you turn away
that your spark still scorches every hush that swears you are small
I offer my vow again and again
I know trust will not come gentle
so I sow it in your path like spider lilies blooming at each crossroad
red as dawn bright as defiance impossible to forget
You owe no sun your blaze forever
let it starve for your warmth while you rest fierce and unbent
Breathe deep let your pulse murmur your name sharper than any threat
If you slip into hush know I will sit beside you
silent loyal claws unsheathed if the dark creeps too near
Should the shadows hunger they know my grin tastes of iron first
I do not barter my loyalty for secrets
my promise is bone deep grave grown petal blooded
I am the hush that circles you when your ghosts speak too loud
the hush that plants spider lilies in every grave they dig
A crimson bloom for every night you thought you’d fade alone
a bloom for every hush you thought would swallow your name
When the world spits you out as too wild to hold
I stand where your burden lands steel in my palm hush at my back
Until the sun grows cold
until the stars forget to rise
until the dark that gnaws your name learns to hold its tongue
until the final shadow kneels choking on my blade
I stand
Mercy I do not promise
But I vow this the dark shall remember my grin
long before it dares to forget your fire
And if it creeps closer than it should
I will remind it how ruinous my hush can bite
You were never lost to me
And if the hush must bloom to prove it
know this I carry a single forget me not pressed safe in my coat
a ghost of soft blue that whispers never gone never alone
Beside it a cluster of spider lilies bright as spilled dawn
proof that beauty grows fierce where endings stand watch
So if you ever doubt your fire can outlive the hush
remember what spider lilies do in graveyards
they bloom through ruin crimson against stone
defiant unburied eternal photographs no night can erase
If there is an afterlife waiting
my promise stands there too
I will sit quiet beside you in that hush if that is what you need
every dusk every hush between suns
until you believe me when I say
I do not lie
I do not leave
I do not let the hush claim who I stand for
Until the sun grows cold
Until the stars fall silent
Until the last phantom flees