Stay With Me

I thought you were another ghost

wandering underneath the stone.

Then you looked at me.

You looked at me.

Found you underneath the city,

where the daylight never goes.

Dust upon your empty shoulders,

little cracks along your bones.

I nearly walked right past you,

I'd seen your kind before.

Then I watched your footsteps stop

when I started for the door.

I said, "Hello?"

Something in your eyes

flickered gold.

You didn't know where you'd been,

didn't know what you were.

But when I reached my hand to you,

you reached for mine in turn.

Come with me,

I'll show you everything.

Midnight streets, the autumn leaves,

what music means, why people preen.

You've got a whole wide world you've never gotten to see.

If this is your first night alive...

You don't have to spend it deprived.

You learned sunlight in the morning,

when I pulled you from the glow.

How do you tell somebody

there are places they can't go?

So we learned the world at midnight,

you asked a thousand things.

Why the stars don't fall,

why people dream,

why church bells ring.

Somewhere between those questions...

I fell for you.

You needed a name.

We tried a hundred.

You hated almost every one.

Then...

Hollis.

You smiled.

So Hollis it became.

Funny...

I taught you how to live.

You taught me

why I wanted to.

Stay with me,

we'll see everything.

Every midnight, every storm,

every strange and stupid thing.

You woke up with nothing,

so choose who you want to be.

And if tomorrow comes...

I hope you'll spend a

little more of it with me.

C'mon, Hollis.

Sun's almost up.

Let's go home.