Intro
The house holds its breath with me
A single lamp
Soft and low
Like it knows what I came here for
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Verse 1
I clear a space on the table
Push the daylight aside
Every small thing laid in order
Where the shadows like to hide
That gentle ribbon round my arm
Pulls tight and holds me still
Strange how something so tender
Can quiet a restless will
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Verse 2
The room grows smaller somehow
Just me and the yellow light
A silver whisper waiting
To loosen up the night
I follow every motion
Like a prayer beneath my breath
Each careful little movement
Leading somewhere warm and left
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Chorus
And suddenly the air is warm
Like someone closed the door
The ache inside my chest
Isn’t screaming anymore
For once the world feels softer
For once I’m safe and still
Like something kind has wrapped me
In a quiet kind of will
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Verse 3
My shoulders start to loosen
The noise begins to fade
Every lonely thought I had
Just slowly drifts away
I swear I feel a presence
Gentle as a hand
Telling me I finally
Belong somewhere again
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Chorus
And suddenly the air is warm
Like someone let me stay
The girl who never fit anywhere
Has somewhere now to lay
The silence feels like mercy
The peace feels almost true
Like love has finally found me
In this borrowed shade of blue
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Bridge
But warmth like that is fragile
It trembles when you breathe
The quiet starts to flicker
Like a candle in a breeze
The room begins returning
Hard edges in the light
And something cold is waking
At the edges of the night
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Final Verse
Now the table looks different
The lamp feels much too bright
The little careful altar
Is ugly in this light
The ribbon falls away again
My arm is pale and bare
A few small drops of red
Bloom quietly on the table there
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Outro
The warmth is gone again
The room is wide and still
Just me
The lamp
The silence
And the ritual
Waiting
To begin.
TikiShark
