"The Hollow Where You Slept"

[Verse 1]
I found the hollow where you slept last night
The moss still warm, the air still sweet with your fight
The river keeps your name between its teeth
And spits it back like prayer when the current’s deep
[Pre-Chorus]
I knelt where the deer had come to drink your ghost
And the water tasted salt and holy host
[Chorus]
Take me down to the place where the wild things weep
Where the roots drink the blood of the promises we keep
I’ll lay my body open like a hymn
Let the earth come in, let the earth come in
You’re the wound that keeps the world from sleeping
[Verse 2]
The blackthorn blooms where your fingers last bled
Thorns like cathedral windows, stained-glass red
I carved your name into the lightning-struck pine
Now the sap runs gold and the tree won’t mind
[Pre-Chorus]
Every creature knows the shape you left behind
Even the wind comes back just to be unkind
[Chorus]
Take me down to the place where the wild things weep
Where the roots drink the blood of the promises we keep
I’ll lay my body open like a hymn
Let the earth come in, let the earth come in
You’re the wound that keeps the world from sleeping
[Bridge – montée céleste et tellurique]
Ohhh… rise up… rise up through the loam
Through the marrow, through the bone
Ohhh… burn low… burn low like a coal
Till the sky splits open and swallows us whole
(la voix se brise, monte en puissance, cordes et chœurs grondent comme un orage qui s’approche)
[Final Chorus – envolée sacrée]
Take me down… take me down…
To the altar where the river drowns
I’ll give my lungs, my tongue, my sin
Let the earth come in… let the earth come in
You’re the wound… you’re the hymn…
You’re the god I keep on sinning in
[Outro]
The hollow where you slept…
Still breathes your name…
Still breathes…

Tempo ~86–90 BPM guitare acoustique puano violoncelle