Patterns in the Dark - Clark Johnson

[Verse 1]
Streetlights buzzing through the winter rain
West side shadows taught me how to carry pain
Mama worked nights, daddy forged steel
Learned real fast what survival feel like

Sirens singing through the avenue
Every face hiding something they never say to you
I stayed quiet, watched the world turn cold
Patterns in the chaos started to unfold

[Pre-Chorus]
I seen fear wearing human skin
Watched good souls break from within
Every corner got a story carved in scars
Every life moving patterns in the dark

[Chorus]
Patterns in the dark
I can feel ’em when the world falls apart
Every shadow got a name somewhere
Every silence say a prayer somewhere

I was raised where the night stay hard
Still I carry that fire through the scars
And I know…
There’s something watching from beyond the stars

Patterns in the dark

[Verse 2]
Government files in a blacked-out room
Static in the wires like a coming doom
People disappearing, signals out of phase
Reality shifting in mysterious ways

Then I saw something I can’t explain
No face, no voice, but it knew my name
Cold presence standing just beyond sight
Like the universe opened up one night

I stood still, heartbeat slow
Some things in this life you don’t let show
It looked through me like I wasn’t alive
Just another variable it already analyzed

[Pre-Chorus]
Now the silence don’t feel the same
Every shadow whisper my name
And the deeper that the mystery starts
The more I see the patterns in the dark

[Chorus]
Patterns in the dark
I can feel ’em when the world falls apart
Every shadow got a name somewhere
Every silence say a prayer somewhere

I was raised where the night stay hard
Still I carry that fire through the scars
And I know…
There’s something watching from beyond the stars

Patterns in the dark

[Bridge]
Martin said the light still lives in us
Even when the world turns dangerous
So I walk through shadows, stay alert
Carrying the weight… carrying the hurt

I ain’t chosen
I ain’t divine
Just a man trying to hold the line

[Final Chorus]
Patterns in the dark
Every ending leave another mark
Through the static and the falling stars
I still hear who we really are

Detroit blood and a guarded heart
Still standing while the worlds depart
And somewhere…
Something waiting in the dark

Patterns in the dark.