Title: The Architecture of Breath
(Verse 1)
I’m mapping out the floorboards in the dark
Learning every hollow, every creak
Building a cathedral in my throat
For all the words I’m too afraid to speak.
You’re a summer tide that turns on a dime
A sudden wind that rattles through the frame
And I’ve become an expert in the weather
Trying to find a way to stay out of the rain.
(Chorus)
And I’m walking on the surface of the lake
Hoping that the winter holds my weight
But the ice is getting thin, and I am heavy
With the things I never tell you to your face.
It’s the way your shadow lengthens in the room
The sharp edge of a silence I can’t break
I’m drowning in the shallow end of us
Afraid of every ripple I might make.
(Verse 2)
You ask me why my hands are always cold
I tell you it’s just January’s ghost
But I’m actually holding back the dam
Protecting the things I love the most.
If I tell you that I’m shaking in the quiet
Will you reach for me or sharpen up your tone?
There’s a fever in the way we talk around it
A crowded house where I feel all alone.
(Bridge)
I’ve memorized the exits and the locks
The way your eyebrows knit before the storm
I’ve learned to be a ghost inside these walls
To keep the cooling embers feeling warm.
But a heart is not a secret to be kept
And a home is not a place you have to hide
I’m standing at the threshold of the truth
With a thousand "maybes" knotted up inside.
(Chorus)
And I’m walking on the surface of the lake
Hoping that the winter holds my weight
But the ice is getting thin, and I am heavy
With the things I never tell you to your face.
It’s the way your shadow lengthens in the room
The sharp edge of a silence I can’t break
I’m drowning in the shallow end of us
Afraid of every ripple I might make.
(Outro)
The water’s dark.
The air is thin.
Where do you end?
Where do I begin?
I’m just waiting for the thaw...
Waiting for the thaw.
(Fade out on the sound of a single piano note)
Symmetry
