Dancing Beneath the Cempasúchil Moon

At midnight I walked past the silent stones

Nylon strings and moonlight in my bones

The air was velvet, the lanterns low

And every shadow taught me how to go

I came with sorrow

Like a heavy coat

A cracked old heart and a trembling throat

But the ground kept dying with a secret grin

Like the night itself was letting me in

So I danced through the cemetery at midnight

Hands up to the stars, eyes open wide

Is it dead or listening?

Come feel my light

Grievetons kill gratitude

In the middle of the night

We're not so far apart

When our candles glow

Close enough to touch

In the undertow

So I dance through the cemetery at midnight

And I thank the dark for teaching me to shine

I heard my mother in the rustling leaves

My father in the trumped-it sudden breeze

Names on the marble

Warm as skin

Like love was the door and I walked in

So I danced through the cemetery at midnight

Hands up to the stars, eyes open wide

As the dead are listening, they can feel my light

Grief turns to gratitude in the middle

Of the night

We're not so far apart and the candles glow

Close enough to touch in the undertow

So I dance through the cemetery at midnight

And I thank the dark for teaching me to shine

No, I don't fear the hush anymore

It's a river with a hidden shore

Every ending leaves a golden thread

Tied to the pulse of the ones I've loved and lost and said

So I dance through the cemetery at midnight

'Til the morning light

If the dead are listening

They can feel my light

Brief turns to gratitude

In the middle of the night

We're not so far apart

When the candles glow

Close enough to touch

In the undertow

So I dance through the cemetery at midnight

And I thank the dark for teaching me to shine