Citadel

She pulls the blankets from my head

Climbs beneath and steals my breath

And we lay silent in the heavy nashville air

We’re in a room inside a house

Inside a city in the south

And I guess it’s about as home as anywhere

Ooh, but her breathing sounds like the rain

Ooh, and I don’t know how to be brave

To be her citadel

A castle she can run to when she’s overwhelmed

A coat to keep her warm in winter’s colder spells

I pack my gear and say goodbye

Slowly pull out of the drive

To sing these songs about the lives that people wear

I hear her whisper in my phone

Then I hang up and sleep alone

This used to be about as “home” as anywhere

Ooh, but I don’t know now, ’cause it’s pain

Ooh, but I don’t know how to be brave

To be her citadel

A castle she can run to when she’s overwhelmed

A coat to keep her warm in winter’s colder spells

Without her, I’m a poem with no words

I need her like a doubt needs reassured

Like the earth without the rain begins to burn

She’s my citadel;

A castle I can run to when I’m overwhelmed

A coat to keep me warm in winter’s colder spells