Atmosphere: Minimalist, ambient, and fluid. The rhythm is steady, but the rhymes are subtle and spacious.
(Verse 1)
I slipped outside my heavy skin,
To let the endless dark begin.
I left my body on the floor—
Just a garment I don’t need anymore.
I set my heart upon the grass,
And watched the quiet ages pass.
Flesh is only temporary clay,
It just gets in sorrow's way.
(Chorus)
And now I flow where rivers freeze,
Beyond the touch of summer breeze.
I am the shadow in the sky,
The question when the planets die.
A timeless ache across the deep,
Too vast for tears, too grand to weep.
I unlearned how to hold your hand,
And drifted from the solid land.
(Verse 2)
You hold the shell I left behind,
Fixated on a point in time.
But I am in the atmosphere,
Floating far above the fear.
The stars are lonely, bright, and old,
Watching the universe unfold.
They see two spirits drift apart,
Measuring the distance of the heart.
(Chorus)
And now I flow where rivers freeze,
Beyond the touch of summer breeze.
I am the shadow in the sky,
The question when the planets die.
A timeless ache across the deep,
Too vast for tears, too grand to weep.
I unlearned how to hold your hand,
And drifted from the solid land.
(Bridge)
We think that love is bound by breath,
A safety net from life to death.
But when the final cord is spun,
We dissolve into the setting sun.
There are no cries, there are no screams,
Just a shadow fading through your dreams.
(Outro)
The pulse is gone, the air is perfectly still,
The body rests, having finally had its fill.
An ocean in eternity, a wide and formless view—
I am only the quiet space that used to hold onto you.
Takara