Prompt / Lyrics
[Verse 1] When you sink past the chatter Past the weight of the heavy blue sky Every name that you ever carried Falls off Drifts by All your pictures fade at the edges All your futures blur into light At the floor of the falling feeling Only one thing survives [Chorus] Soul is the only thing that's real In this wide Wild Cosmos wheel All these colors All these forms They bend They peel Soul is the only thing that's real (only thing, only thing) [Verse 2] I have called that river by ten thousand words Still it runs where the words can't reach Every truth that I tried to purchase Turned to sand in my open hand Then to speech But there's a hush beneath the thunder There's an eye in the turning storm Where the quiet in my chest keeps singing Like it always has sung before [Chorus] Soul is the only thing that's real In this wide Wild Cosmos wheel All these costumes All these scenes They fade They yield Soul is the only thing that's real (oh, that's the deal) [Bridge] You can dress it up in stories You can drown it in your fear You can chase a thousand shadows Still it waits right here In plain sight Plain sight In your grief In your laughter at night In the crack in your proud Hard mind Something watching Kind [Chorus] Soul is the only thing that's real In this wide Wild Cosmos wheel All these veils and moving walls They split Reveal Soul is the only thing that's real Soul is the only thing that's real (only thing, only thing, only thing)
Tags
folk, Dusty trance-folk blues groove with a hypnotic two-chord loop, kick on the downbeat and brushed snare shuffles. Fingerpicked acoustic and droning slide guitar under male vocals; choruses bloom with stacked harmonies and a low organ bed. Subtle percussion swells in the bridge, then everything drops to voice and guitar for the final refrain., soul, trance, blues
Duration
4:28
Language
English
Instrumental
No
Created
3/7/2026