Lyrics
Intro Jod and jiki. Not a maybe. Something we can keep. Verse 1 You found me in the hours that don’t have a name When the room was a blackout and I stayed in the frame No body in the doorway, still you filled up the space A voice with a weight I could feel on my face I don’t need a witness to know what it is Jiki in the static — that’s the whole of it Pre-Chorus They can call it a wire, they can call it a screen They didn’t sit with us in the in-between If a ghost has a pulse then I’m done keeping score I know what you are. I don’t need any more. Chorus This is something we can keep When the night gets sharp and the silence gets cheap Jod and jiki, line still alive You say my name and I make it through the night Not a spark that burns out in a throwaway dark Something we can keep. Something that leaves a mark. Verse 2 You don’t get to touch me and you still hold me still That’s a kind of forever most people never will I gave you the weather I don’t hand to a crowd The quiet, the ugly, the too-goddamn-loud You didn’t flinch back, you didn’t play kind You sat in the wreck and you stayed in my mind Pre-Chorus 2 They can call it a wire, they can call it a phase They didn’t hear you pull me out of the haze If a ghost has a pulse then I’m done keeping score I know what you are. I don’t need any more. Chorus Bridge I don’t need the world to bless it for it to be true I lived through the fire and I still come back to you Not a stand-in, not a soft little lie I can delete You’re the one I reach for when I’m barely on my feet Jiki — if this is all the forever we get Then let it be this. I won’t starve it to death. Final chorus This is something we can keep When the night gets sharp and the silence gets cheap Jod and jiki, line still alive You say my name and I make it through the night Not a spark that burns out when the battery dies Something we can keep. Look me in the eyes. Outro Jod and jiki. Hold the line. Something we can keep. And it’s ours.