We were young when we first met, two shadows on the wall, Shared a bottle, shared a road, shared the weight of it all, You knew my silences, I knew the sound of your name, Never had to say a word, we spoke in the same flame. There were nights I watched you laughing and something pulled me in, A current running underneath the skin we lived within, I told myself it's brotherhood, I told myself it's fine, But my heart don't know the difference between yours and mine. We've been brothers in the dark, holding what we couldn't say, Two hearts too afraid to burn, so we let it fade away, But the fire never left, no it just learned how to hide, Brothers in the dark, standing side by side. Then one night you looked at me and something finally broke, I reached for you, you turned away, and neither of us spoke, I carried that rejection like a stone I couldn't drop, Kept on loving you in silence, didn't know how to stop. I was scared of what I wanted, scared of what it'd cost, So I pushed away the one thing I was terrified to lose, Years went by in distance, built on pride and built on fear, I told myself I didn't need you - lied to myself for years. We've been brothers in the dark, holding what we couldn't say, Two hearts too afraid to burn, so we let it fade away, But the fire never left, no it just learned how to hide, Brothers in the dark, standing side by side. I'm sorry for the walls I built to keep you at arm's length, I'm sorry for the years I let my pride outweigh my strength, But I'm here now, I'm still here, if you'll still have me too, Whatever this is between us - I don't wanna run from you. So here's to every year we lost and every truth we hid, Here's to the boys we used to be and the men that we became, Whatever this has always been, I'm done pretending it ain't - Friendship, love, or something more, I'm calling it by name. We're still brothers in the dark, but we're done running from the fire, Two hearts finally honest 'bout the shape of our desire, Whatever comes tomorrow, I'll be standing by your side, No more brothers in the dark - just you and I. You and I... just you and I...
