[Intro]
Three in the morning
No mercy in the rain
Your shadow at my bedside
Has learned to say my name

[Verse]
The sheets were cold, the ceiling low
The clock moved cruel and slow
I heard no footsteps in the hall
And still I felt you through the wall
Your absence wore a human shape
A black dress made of no escape
It leaned above my tired head
And slept beside me in the bed

[Pre-Chorus]
I know you are not in the room
But still the roses start to bloom
A thought can have a hand, a face
A memory can occupy space

[Chorus]
Your shadow at my bedside
Breathes where you should be
Your shadow at my bedside
Still takes the night from me
I close my eyes, I see you
I wake, you are not gone
Your shadow at my bedside
Keeps the dark switched on

[Verse]
I tried to pray, I tried to turn
I tried to let the fever burn
But every nerve had learned your art
A house of strings around my heart
I heard your voice in my own chest
It said that leaving was a test
It said that loneliness was proof
That love was still beneath the roof

[Pre-Chorus]
I know you are not in the room
But still the roses start to bloom
A thought can have a hand, a face
A memory can occupy space

[Chorus]
Your shadow at my bedside
Breathes where you should be
Your shadow at my bedside
Still takes the night from me
I close my eyes, I see you
I wake, you are not gone
Your shadow at my bedside
Keeps the dark switched on

[Interlude]
No body
No breath
No mercy
No rest
Still closer
Than skin
Still asking
Come in

[Bridge]
I understand the cruelest part
You do not need to hold my heart
You trained the silence how to feed
You taught the dark to know my need
And now when I am left alone
I build your shape from blood and bone
A lover gone, a wound that stays
A shadow with familiar ways

[Breakdown]
Leave me
Need me
Hurt me
Free me
Stay there
Not there
Still there
Still there

[Build-up]
The room is shaking
The morning is late
The shadow is waiting
Beside my fate
The room is shaking
The sky turns gray
I reach for the window
I beg for the day

[Chorus]
Your shadow at my bedside
Breathes where you should be
Your shadow at my bedside
Still takes the night from me
I close my eyes, I see you
I wake, you are not gone
Your shadow at my bedside
Keeps the dark switched on

[Chorus]
Your shadow at my bedside
Knows every way I break
Your shadow at my bedside
Takes more than you could take
I close my eyes, I see you
I wake, I carry on
Your shadow at my bedside
Keeps the dark switched on

[Outro]
Four in the morning
The rain begins to fade
Your shadow at my bedside
Is something that I made