Every Step You Take

I said I would follow you anywhere.

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On nights like this, the clouds devour the moon.

Your stomach drops, like missing a step, when you realize

the parking lot is a cracked black wasteland.

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On nights like this, the clouds devour the moon.

The echoes of your footsteps are large dark slaps;

the parking lot is a cracked black wasteland.

Your heart is climbing your throat, a loosening wire.

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The echoes of your footsteps are large dark slaps;

your shadow is tall like something inhuman.

Your heart is climbing your throat, a loosening wire.

Leaves scrape across the pavement like the wings of beetles.

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Your shadow is tall like something inhuman.

Sirens wail in the night, somewhere too far away.

Leaves scrape across the pavement like the wings of beetles;

the lights in nearby windows click off one by one.

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Sirens wail in the night, somewhere too far away;

it's late to be out alone, don't you think?

The lights in nearby windows click off one by one.

You hear ragged breathing, footsteps beneath your own, but then

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it’s late to be out alone, don’t you think?

Your stomach drops, like missing a step, when you realize.

You hear ragged breathing, footsteps beneath your own, but then

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I said I would follow you anywhere.