Nightlight

[Verse 1]
My memories are made up of strangers
Faces that have faded, souls that got ablated
Drowsy in the sunlight stasis
Long dawn talking 'till we're sleepwalking
I used to have people to call
We could try now, reinstall the cabal, but
Do I want to break that memory?
Charade as people we can never be again?
Re-enact in a lost place
I was fifteen, hot on a false dream
Now I'm twenty-five, ossified ghosts lie behind my eyes

[Verse 2]
Identity crisis, defined by vices
Tried to wrap up, sale-price us
Personality's just an illness to abide
And if you don't have a label then you can't be identified
Remember when we just had names?
Just go back but it won't be the same
Words to forget, feelings to remember
I thought those nights would last forever
And I can see the light below the door
I know they're not there anymore

[Chorus]
But I left the Nightlight
I left the Nightlight on
I left the Nightlight
I left the Nightlight on

[Verse 3]
In case they ever come back, I left on the Nightlight
Boys in the sky write looking for the limelight
Bend down, you could see the high-rise
Skyline fly, never satisfied
We had stars in our eyes
Like comets, we had falls to survive
Places never to arrive
Brighter than we'd ever know
Never stopped to soak in the afterglow
Aftermath of the hard years, all the scripts we tried
Haven't got one real friend who never talks about suicide
Try to survive, ride on with the tribe
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah

[Verse 4]
But I'm attuned to death
Say "not yet, not yet"
Mind on a magnet
Four names on a bracelet
World shaking while they're map-making
'X' where I'm breaking up
Sometimes I don't like waking up
Shade in my veins, dark shapes in my brain
That's how he put it to me
Nostalgic for the years when he was free, yeah
He said "I want to see what tomorrow brings
But you gotta hide away from some things, some things"

[Chorus]
But I left the Nightlight on
I left the Nightlight
I left the Nightlight on

[Verse 5]
I've been in the ambulance, I've been on the mountain
I've been throwing wishes into fountains but they just sink
Seen too many nightmares to daydream quite the same way lately
Crises vaguely remembered can change you forever
But we could fight bravely together
Searching for a weapon right now, wonder if I still know how
To find youth lost deep down in the corridors of my mind
Innocence, back before anyone I knew had died
Waterfalls, paper dolls lost to time
Before their time
Ten years I've been getting bodied
Every demon comes swinging on me, but they don't own me
And I don't need no memories
I'd still know me, I'm still the old me
And they can never scratch my pride
The light never fades inside
It just needs some space to breathe
I know some people had to leave, but I don't believe they're gone

[Outro]
So I left the Nightlight
I left the Nightlight on
I left the Nightlight
I left the Nightlight on
I left the Nightlight
I left the Nightlight on
I left the Nightlight
I left the Nightlight on
Keep flickering, just keep flickering
Keep flickering, just keep flickering
Keep flickering, just keep flickering
Keep flickering, just keep flickering
Keep flickering, just keep flickering
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah