The Wolf at Your Door

Willow Ashgrove

Spotify · Lyric Video

Oh-oh, when the dark comes down
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh, when the dark comes down
You won't stand in it alone

If you're small and you're lost in the deep of the wood
Where the cold's coming in and the light's gone for good
If the wide world has bared all its teeth at you
And nobody came and nobody knew —
But I cut my teeth in the frost and the pine
And I swore that I'd never let the dark have what's mine
So close your eyes now, let the night do its worst
There's a wolf on your side, and she got here first

Let them rage, let them come
Let them pound on the door
What meets them when they reach for you
Is not the frightened thing from before

I'm the wolf at your door
I'm the thorn in the briar
I'm the shape in the dark
Standing guard by your fire
Don't be afraid of the eyes in the night
The wolf at your door — she's on your side
Oh-oh, she's on your side

For the runaways, the lost ones, the ones with no home
For the too-soft, the too-strange, the ones left alone
I have teeth now, and none of them are turned to you
They are for anyone, anything, trying to get through
So sleep, little wren, put your head down and rest
Let me stand in the cold on the moonlit crest
If trouble wants in, then trouble can try
There's a wolf at your door, and she don't say goodbye

I was gentle once too, I was easy to break
I know how it feels when there's too much at stake
So I'll be what I needed on the worst of my nights —
The eyes in the dark that turn out to be light
Nobody touches the ones I hold dear
Not while there's breath and a growl in my chest
So come stand close, little one, nothing to fear —
The wild's got you now, let the wild do the rest

Oh-oh, when the dark comes down
Oh-oh, she's on your side
Oh-oh, when the dark comes down
The wolf at your door — she's on your side

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