Prompt / Lyrics
[Intro] G — Em — C — D [Verse 1] G No one writes a comfort book this cold, Em Where narrow paths are lined with iron and bone, C Where gardens sweat and sons cry out in vain, D And love means walking straight into the flame. [Pre-Chorus] Em — C I didn’t come here looking to believe, G — D I came because the evidence won’t leave. [Chorus] G We are glorious ruins, Em Made in the image, cracked at the core, C Neither the darkness nor the light alone D — G Can explain what we’re reaching for. Em Every other ladder asks you climb, C This one was lowered — here, to the ground. D — G If the stone was rolled, then nothing else matters. C — D — G If it wasn’t, none of this is found. [Verse 2] G A lamb in Egypt, a servant bruised in verse, Em Seven centuries before the hammer’s curse — C Too precise for legend, too early for a lie, D Too specific for the fog of prophets’ eyes. [Pre-Chorus] Em — C And Peter went to his cross upside down, G — D James turned a skeptic’s silence into sound. [Chorus] G We are glorious ruins, Em Made in the image, cracked at the core, C Neither the darkness nor the light alone D — G Can explain what we’re reaching for. Em Every other ladder asks you climb, C This one was lowered — here, to the ground. D — G If the stone was rolled, then nothing else matters. C — D — G If it wasn’t, none of this is found. [Bridge] Am What makes sense of Bach and genocide? C A child laughing, a child left to die? Em The secular can’t hold both at once — D Only broken glory answers why. Am I won’t pretend the suffering is solved, C Or that the exclusions sit clean on the shelf, Em But no worldview carries more of the weight — D — Dsus4 — D He entered the darkness, He went there Himself. [Final Chorus — full band, swell] G We are glorious ruins, Em Made in the image, cracked at the core, C Neither the darkness nor the light alone D — G Can explain what we’re reaching for. Em Every other ladder asks you climb, C This one was lowered — here, to the ground. D — G If the stone was rolled, then nothing else matters. C — D — G If it wasn’t, none of this is found. [Outro] G — Em — C — D (repeat, fade) ”…beautiful and broken. Beautiful and broken.” (spoken/whispered) Production Notes: ∙ Intro/Verses: Solo fingerpicked acoustic guitar, barely-there piano ∙ Chorus: Cello enters, brushed snare ∙ Bridge: Strip back to voice + single piano note ∙ Final Chorus: Full band crash — electric guitar shimmer, low organ, bass, full drums ∙ Tempo: ~62 BPM — deliberate, unhurried
Tags
Cinematic Folk / Indie Gospel — fingerpicked acoustic guitar, sparse piano, cello, brushed drums., male
Duration
4:19
Instrumental
No
Created
3/9/2026