The Gravity of Ghosts
(Intro)
(The sound of a match striking. A single, distorted note on a three-string guitar. The faint, echoing sound of piano keys being cleaned.)
(Verse 1)
A half-lit smoke hangs heavy from your mouth like a prayer,
Strumming three jagged strings through the static in the air.
You’re the only thing beautiful while the architecture falls,
Writing hymns on the wallpaper, painting life on the walls.
When you touch the ivory, the world starts to thin—
Fading out of this reality and shedding your skin.
(Verse 2)
Watch her fingertips dance, making love to the keys,
Bringing the silence of the graveyard right down to its knees.
She isn't playing for the light or a God in the sky,
She’s playing for the ghosts and the shadows drifting by.
An audience of spirits, a crowd of the dead,
Hearing all the beautiful things that we never said.
The ivory is screaming, but her touch is a grace,
Finding a heaven in this godforsaken place.
(Chorus)
So let’s get high and drift until the stars burn out,
That’s what being lost in the magic is about.
Hula-hooping Saturn’s rings, spinning in the glow,
The fire in the ice where the bitter winds blow.
In the Upside Down, where the shadows are deep,
We’re the secrets that the universe promised to keep.
(Bridge)
Our love is a tide that’s too heavy for the shore,
So we drift further out where the deep waters roar.
We watch our babies blooming from a galaxy away,
The suns of a tomorrow that we can’t ever stay.
It’s not that we’re cold, or our hearts have gone dry—
We’re just the dark matter that holds up their sky.
We love them so much we become the "Unknown,"
So they never have to carry the seeds that we've sown.
(Verse 3)
We’re spinning in the magic, dancing with the tears,
The only ones who stayed awake through all the static years.
I wish we would’ve listened when we were young and bright,
But we’re still those kids, Gabby, just chasing down the night.
Life is a jagged blade, it hurts too much to feel,
So we live inside the melody, the only thing that’s real.
I’ll stay by your side through the 'In-Between' haze,
The witness to your fire and your neon-shadowed days.
Until the day Dane comes to take me away,
I’m the anchor to your soul, and I’m here to stay.
(Chorus)
Yeah, let's get high and drift until the stars burn out,
That’s what being lost in the magic is about.
Hula-hooping Saturn’s rings, spinning in the glow,
The fire in the ice where the bitter winds blow.
In the Upside Down, where the shadows are deep,
We’re the secrets that the universe promised to keep.
(Outro)
Gabby, you lost your clothes again...
Doing cartwheels in the dark.
But you’re the beauty behind the glow.
The fire that burns the ice away.
Until the hair turns grey.
Until the tide takes us home.
The dead are all ours now.
(Fade out to the sound of a final, low piano chord)
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