Pan de Muerto and Neon Hearts

By the family altar, the candles inked in gold

Panda morta on the table, warm against the cold

Your name in the marigolds, I trace it with my eyes

All the city hums like memory beneath the midnight sky

I was hurt, I was hollow, I was learning how to stay

Began to shimmer when the music drifted far away

So we danced through the grief, through the dark, through the ache

With our hands full of sweetness and our hearts wide awake

The night tries to take what the day we can't keep

I will love you out loud, I will love you in the

Grandma lights another candle, my brother starts to sway

Even sorrow in the doorway has to move a little way

So put the sugar glass in hand, let the silence breathe

And every little heartbeat says you're still here with me

I can feel you in the laughter and the smiles

You know I'm in the shadow, turning softer at the edge of the shrine

So we dance through the grief, through the dark, through the ache

With our hands full of sweetness and our hearts wide awake

The night tries to take what the daylight can't keep

I will love you out loud, I will love you in me

Let the sorrow pass through us like rain through the trees

Let this autoframe hold us, let the old songs ease

What we lose becomes a lantern, what we miss becomes a flame

And the alter winds are breathing when we call each name

So we dance through the grief, through the dark

Through the ache

With our hands full of sweetness

And our hearts wide awake

Once the night tries to take

Not the daylight can keep

I will love you out loud

I will love you in me

Yes, I will love you out loud

And I'll carry your light with me