Side By Side

We learned to bleed in tandem
Two wounds that learned to sync
Your hand on my collarbone
My name undone at the brink

We dragged our ghosts together
Through doorways, through the mud
When one of us fell under
The other pulled me up

So don't you let go
Don't you let go now
If the floor gives way
We'll still know how

Side
We don't break, we bend
By side
Scar tissue, not the end
Side
Through the ruin and flame
By side
I'm still breathing your name

I saw your eyes go colder
I saw my pride go red
We threw our words like bottles
And they shattered round the bed

But even in the wreckage
You reached for my sleeve
Like saying, I'm still here
Was enough to make me breathe

So don't you let go
Don't you let go now
If the roof comes down
We'll hold the sound

Side
We don't break, we bend
By side
Scar tissue, not the end
Side
Through the ruin and flame
By side
I'm still breathing your name

If I go blind, be my line
If you go dark, I'll be the spark
If you go numb, I'll shake your bones
Till your heart comes back to start

We were never built like stone
We were rope pulled taut and thin
Stretched until we learn to hold
More weight than skin should hold within

Side by side
Say it again
Side by side
Til the end
Side by side
Hands to the sky
Side by side
We survive

Side
We don't break, we bend
By side
Scar tissue, not the end
Side
Through the ruin and flame
By side
I'm still breathing your name