The lights are bright around us, reds and blues and greens and yellows. The bass drum pounding through the floor and the crowd in the mosh pit dancing along to the music.

"I see you lying next to me
With words I thought I'd never speak
Awake and unafraid
Asleep or dead."

The song ends and I feel Brendon pull me closer as the red haired boy onstage looks around.

The drums begin and after a while, the guitar, the bass, and then his voice.

"When the lights go out
Will you take me with you?
And carry all this broken bone
Through six years down in crowded rooms
And highways I call home
Is something I can't know 'til now
Till you pick me off the ground
With brick in hand, your lip gloss smile
Your scrapes up knees and..."

I've always loved this song. We both have, and I fell myself begin to press my head into his chest as the chorus comes.

"If you stay
I would even wait all night
Or until my heart explodes
How long?
Until we find our way
In the dark and out of harm
You can run away with me."

"Anytime you want."

Brendon kisses me gently and I swear there's nothing else in the world besides him and me and Gerard's voice out in the distance.

"Turn my headphones up real loud
I don't think I need them now
Cause you stop the noise..."