Reason has left with someone else
Listen close, then, shift it to the shelf
It smells like rain is coming soon
A muffled sound of thunder startles you, too

Batten down
The wandering winter snow that falls
Like lonely little diamonds heading home to find
Instead of something — nothing
Not a single soul
Swaybacks make their way around the room

When all your dreams are falling through
She’ll say “I told you so”

Light, bright
Shut Down Night
The Beast has come to gloat
Smug and listless, is what this is
Lie low till it’s done
Your hackles are raised
It stories held back hate
And speaks to all the wrong that’s come and gone
Said and done

It’s so lovely the way your skin has raised
To seed and back again
Swaybacks make their way around the room
While you talk too high the list goes on and on and on
With no click three times to send you spinning home
And swaybacks make their way around the room

Light, Bright
Shut Down Night
The Beast has come to gloat
Smug and listless, is what this is
Lie low till it’s done
Your hackles are raised
It stories held back hate
And speaks to all the wrong that’s come and gone
Said and done

And now you see not blue, but red
A toothless shift to dark again
I told you so — she said

A perfect thing that changed your guard
A turnaround that speaks in scars
I told you so
It said
She said
It said