Here Is the Dark
Reasonable Dreams
Delayed Grief · Death of a Close Friend · Dark Hopeful Pop
#VERSE
Here is the dark that I’ve been dreading
Seven years lurking and now it appears
Wrapping its veil around my eyes
Like a friend’s playful prank extracting my tears
#VERSE
Here is the dark I’ve been expecting
The moment when grief will finally begin
Crying ’cause you died seven years, today
Remembering you as a brother and friend
#CHORUS
Here is the dark
It feels so empty
And it’s not just a feeling
It really is cold
Need your warm laughter
Need your bright spark
Take this weight off my spirit
Let your spirit unfold
#INSTRUMENTAL
#VERSE
I know why my tears didn’t fall back then
Had to hold it together for everyone else
Days kept on rolling, moving too fast
But tonight, grief has cornered me, alone by myself
#CHORUS
Here is the dark
It feels so empty
And it’s not just a feeling
It really is cold
Need your warm laughter
Need your bright spark
Take this weight off my spirit
Let your spirit unfold
#CHORUS
Wish you were here
To impart a new lesson
Teach me how to not sink
In a drowning depression
But the grief of your loss
Bites like jaws of a shark
Here is the dark
Here is the dark
#BRIDGE
I still have the memory locked in my mind
Of you scrubbing the windshield of your car
And the dirt on that window turned into a lesson
To keep the glass clean if I want to see far
It’s easy to drive through life in a daze
Missing the views through dirt-tinted glass
You taught me to have hope in a crystal-clear future
A friend and a mentor, you taught me with class
#INSTRUMENTAL
#VERSE
But tonight, my windshield is plastered with mud
It’s so dark in this car I don’t know where I am
The wipers won’t work
Damn, I’m missing you, bud
#CHORUS
Here is the dark
But it won’t consume me
I know it’s just mud
On my windshield glass
I hear your warm laughter
I see your bright spark
Remembering you
Causes tears to flow fast
#CHORUS
Here is the dark
I thought would submerge me
But I float to the surface
On my memories of you
Yes, I’m finally grieving
With buckets of tears
Which I’ll throw on the windshield
For a hopeful, clear view
#OUTRO
With each day
I’ll remember you
With each day
I’ll remember you
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