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Light Behind the Window

Light Behind the Window

Format • EP
Release date 2025-12-19
Label Maison Deforbryel
Tracks 3
Total length 16:36

Someone lays their dawn into another’s night and keeps quiet watch at the glass—on doorsteps, platforms, empty rooms—steadying fear. The city breathes; days turn; whispered names rise like steps, and slowly a passage appears. This song traces the vigil, the giving of oneself, the prayer that asks not for spectacle but for a way through. It is a light that never forces the door: it waits, it walks with us, it learns our stride. For those who listen, it offers a small province of calm and hope, a halo set gently in the dark.

Lyrics

I laid my dawn upon your nightTraded my halo for your chainsHeard your centuries of quiet criesOpened the gate and took your placeNow I walk the hours that never endBetween crosswalks and constellationsA hush of grace behind the glassA breath that steadies every station
I drift between the streetlights and the starsA mercy in the margins of your heart
I’m the light behind your window, (ohThe hand that holds your fear, (hold onThe warmth that moves in shadows, (mm-mmA psalm you almost hearIf I never find my home againLet love be where I dwellFor every soul I stand besideBecomes my chapel bell
I watched my loves through ordinary daysKettles sing, and calendars turnThey felt me like a lanterned calmA silent hymn where sorrows burnOne by one, like dusk to dawnThey crossed the water, unafraidAnd when the sky unbuttoned goldThey saw the face that never strayed
I waved them through the doorway of the skyAnd kept the vigil where the living cry
I’m the light behind your window, (ohThe hand that holds your fear, (hold onThe warmth that moves in shadows, (mmmA psalm you almost hearIf I never find my home againLet love be where I dwellFor every soul I stand besideBecomes my chapel bell
Years unspooled, the city changedOnly strangers knew my streetsStill I carried tender fireA lighthouse no one seesThen a midnight on the edge of breathA heart near breaking, near goodbyeI knelt inside the brittle darkAnd poured my prayer into their sky
“Child of dust and diamond, stayThere is a dawn that needs your nameHold on, hold on“You are not an empty roomYou are a seed of golden rain
Lead me to the smallest flameTeach my breath to sing Your nameIf love is all I’m given, LordIf hope is only whispered
So I vowed to find the breaking onesTo stand where endings learn to mendAnd every soul that saw me passBegan to pray my journey’s endTheir prayers became a silver roadA staircase made of whispered namesIt rose like morning through my chestA mercy bright as windowpane
I’m the light behind your window, (ohBut now a river parts the veil, (part the veilThe choir of all your faithful loveHas set my footsteps free to sailIf I finally find my home againIt’s love that wrote the wayFor every life I stood besideHas turned my night to day
I go where love goes, I go where love goesThrough every door it opensTill streetlights bloom like halosAnd heaven takes me home

Tracklist

01

Light Behind the Window

5:24
02

Lueur derrière la fenêtre

5:12
03

窓辺のひかり

Madobe no Hikari

6:00