Velvet Cape at Dusk

I wear a velvet cape

Until the evening light

Old doubts in my pockets

Heavy as the night

But the streetlamps bloom

Like honest little stars

And I feel the dark untie

The locker of my heart

So I open up the window to the air

Let the hidden bruises learn how to breathe out there

I'm walking lighter now

I'm walking harder

With your hands in mine

I'm braver, I'm soft

I carried all my shadows to the open road

And left them in the dusk

Where the cold winds go

I'm walking lighter now

With my heart unbound

The velvet gate behind me and the truth out loud

You laugh and the cello in the distance sways

Like every little fear is slowly losing shape

I used to wear my worries like a second skin

Now I let the evening in and let the light begin

Every doubt I name turns silver on the tongue

Every worn-out worry comes undone

One by one, I'm walking lighter now

I'm walking farther

With your hands in mine, I'm braver, I'm softer

Carried all my shadows to the open road

And left them in the dusk where the cold winds go

I'm walking lighter now with my heart unbound

The velvet cape behind me and the truth out loud

If the night asks questions, I won't turn away

I've got your tender voice to guide me through the gray

And all the old, old weight can fall and fade

I was never made to stay inside the shade

I'm walking lighter now

I'm walking farther

With your hands in mine

Unbrighter, unsofter

I carried all my shadows to the open road

And left them in the dusk where the cold winds go

I'm walking lighter now

I'm walking home

To fulfill the cape of memory I no longer own

I'm walking lighter now

And the evening knows

Love can list the heaviest things

And let them go