Shadows Dancing on a Bedroom Wall

Before you, ward-off ember white
Bedside table waiting light
Burning through a midnight thunder storm
But the convenient ingenuity
Of manmade electricity
Can't compete with lightnings natural form

So when the darkness's not my doing
I pull a match across the brittle black
Strip of friction crackeling to life
And a candle stands its guard against
This sudden void of nothingness
Fighting back against the tide o' night

And I can see
That we
Were shadows dancing on a bedroom wall
I can see
That we were never real at all

The outline of the almost missed
We both timidly dismissed
Always blurred the edge of our demise
And a kiss disguised in Cold War coat
Designed to hide the unexposed
Truth we missed to bluff for pretty lies

And I can see
That we
Were shadows dancing on a bedroom wall
And I can see
So clearly
There's nothing we could do
To escape the second fall
Oh I can see
That we were never real at all

I say the wax don't go deeper than the surface
Mhm
No expression to show you where the hurt is
Just a vague idea of why it wasn't working
Mhm
I still wish it would've worked

And I can see
That we
Were shadows dancing on a bedroom wall
I can see
That we were never real at all