Through the Dark Restrung

The very day you were born, your light shone bold in the dark

The doctor said you had a hole in your heart

I just knew you were making room for a whole lot of heart

And loved you from that day until your soul will depart

You took your first breath upon my chest

Built you a good nest before I left

Wasn't that I never loved your mother

But two happy homes are better than one that suffered

Every regret in this life that I made

Have been tempered by the strength in your eyes every day

I know you never said that you'd like me to stay

Still I'm sorry I neglected you while I was away

You were eight when we headed to casualty

And no child should face their death or mortality

You taught me patience, strength and morality

And I'd burden this weight instead of you happily

That night, you asked would you die from your sickness

And why it hadn't chosen your life out of millions

You filled me with the pride I was missing

'Cause grown men cry, they lack your type of resilience

Only when it's dark are the stars so bright

For your find you gon' hide by these scars for life

But you a brave little soul, came in the cold

Light a fighter, hope you find the same flame when you're old

Fall asleep and lay with me

We'll search the night for shooting stars

If they can't take away your pain

I'll take your hand, walk through the dark

The dark

Through the dark

I wrote this while you slept in a hospital bed

Know this, your breath worth the cost of my breath

I'd forego this life, let you honor my death

If you could know what it's like to live alone in regret

So you can fight, you can shove, you can bleed and hurt

You can cry, you can love, learn your creed or worth

Earn your stripes, act dumb, cut your teeth or worse

Or take a wife to become your sky, sea and earth

But if these are things that you never see

With no God, just me here to set you free

And most of us won't understand the hell in which you've been in

Till they've wrestled with a demon

But take heart, to be brave we first need fear

The same heart that's seen pain, yet persevered will serve you

I know this world is of course unfair and hurt you

But these virtues are yours to bear

I named you lion heart on the day you're born

They say the night is darkest before the dawn

I'll take your hand up on this path if you can light a spark

Then we can find some calm in a raging storm

Ain't nothing left to scare you see

So we can live life, cherish every breath we breathe

And no matter where you go, no, I'll never leave

'Cause even when we go, we living in a memory, so live on

Fall asleep and lay with me

We'll search the night for shooting stars

If they can't take away your pain

I'll take your hand, walk through the dark

Fall asleep and lay with me

We'll search the night for shooting stars

If they can't take away your pain

I'll take your hand, walk through the dark

The dark

Through the dark

I'm sorry that I can't take your pain or answer why

We'll lay awake through darker skies

I say your name, you cast the light

You're a flame on a starless night

And I didn't know I was lost till you found me

Didn't know I was locked in without keys

But we can walk across all these boundaries

You and me, nothing here to stop you, you're now free

And so I wrote this to give you hope

For every good thing in life you'll live to know

They say cancer survivors are gifted though

Let me know if that isn't so