After dark

'After dark' by Wisp is a 2025 track from the album 'If Not Winter'. The lyrics move through anxious self-doubt and repeated questioning, with the speaker trying to distract and talk until nothing is left to say. There is an appeal for steadiness, imagining someone holding their hands and grounding their feet, but that reassurance is undermined by a sense that love is going weak. The voice ends on harsh self-assessment, insisting on worthlessness, with the last lines closing on resignation and numbness, and the question of whether they should stay only knowing. The refrain-like hook, “Could I fall down?”, frames the whole song as a moment of precarious feeling.