A Second in White - The Joy Formidable

You’re young and your spirit’s not broken

I rest in the eyes where I see myself back

I’m a shape in the shadow of your free dreaming

All these shapes, all these arrows to the places I’ve been

Move aside

This town where I gloss the walls of failing

Soak the red sunset, try and warm this chill

I’m a pattern out of the place that runs uneven

All these patterns, so impassioned

By a place that makes me tired

Move aside

I had a second in white

This flash, this flash outside the dark

Then chance hurried on

I had a second in white

Let me tell you why

If you make something the only thing

That there’s no life without it

It’s your air, your light and your food

It’s been the filler of all your wounds

Losing that I thought would be darkest day

But then I heard the birds sing after the storm

And they sang «It's you, you have it all now, what will you do?»

I had a second in white

Move, move aside

Move aside

It’s not gonna stay

This flash, this flash outside the dark

Then chance hurried on

I had a second in white