Silence Lay Steadily (Confetti)

Don't be afraid of me now... I'm not the bent-neck thing. I'm just your sister, finally home, come to tell you everything. I know you ran out into morning, I know you left them in the dark... but listen — none of us are gone, we're scattered, not apart. The house gave us our nightmares, yes — but it gave us something more: it gave me back the people I was always reaching for. 'Cause a ghost was never only fear, it was never only dread... sometimes a ghost is just a wish — the love that isn't dead— We're all just confetti, thrown up against the night — a thousand falling pieces catching fragments of the light. So don't you grieve me, don't you fear me, I am everywhere you go... I'm the warmth behind the silence, I'm the not-alone you know. And Dad's at peace now with our mother, not the storm — the girl she was. And there's a little one named Abigail who finally found her cause. We're a family in the quiet, in the steady, settled dark... and we'll keep a little candle lit for the ones still living, in your hearts. So go and fall in love again, go and hold your children tight. Go and live the loud, bright, messy years we never got to write. And when the silence finds you, when the dark feels close and old... just know we're standing with you — you were never on your own. We're all just confetti, and oh, the fall is beautiful — a rain of all our broken light making something whole. So don't you grieve us, don't you fear us, let the steady silence stay... 'cause love outlasts the haunting — love is what the house can't take. We don't come home... we never left at all. And here, in the steady silence — no one walks alone. No one walks alone.