A Shadow On Me

These petals
 This blackened rose
 In a soil of my own
 Shrouding your hallowed ground
 Like seeds who'll never sow
 Like forgery and larceny
 And my ill-gained revelry
 I recite these scripted lines
 While embers of a different time
 Go drifting by
 When every word you ever said came true
 All I missed in all of this was you
 Can you see
 A shadow on me
 Calling me to leave
 Find
 (You're the only home I know)
 In me
 (You're the only home I know)
 A trace of you
 In all this tragedy
 These pieces
 These shattered shards
 Dancing in the moonlight
 Glimmering and glistening
 Preparing me for the night
 I never learned to walk the surface on my own
 So lately this ocean floor's
 Been feeling more like home
 So take me in these fleeting moments of solitude in you
 Remove this sordid fascination with shadow, and remove
 This shattered self of preservation, permit me to undo
 All that you forgave, and give and all you promised to
 And all you promised to...
 Can you see the shadow lifting,
 Drifting home again?