**[Intro – whispered]** Don’t move. The light has almost found you. Cortina. **[Verse 1]** There are beads between the room and me, small wooden moons upon a thread. They tremble when the warm wind comes, but never tell you what I said. You watch the sunlight cross my skin as though it writes my history. But light is only passing through— it doesn’t know the whole of me. **[Refrain]** I wear the sun like armour, I keep the night beneath. You may follow every shadow, you may listen while I breathe. Come closer if you mean it, but don’t mistake the glow for grace. I wear the sun like armour and the dark behind my face. **[Instrumental – oud, bass, clicking beads]** **[Verse 2]** The plaster holds the afternoon, the room still tastes of dust and rain. Your footsteps wait beyond the door like someone learning my true name. This heat is a curtain, the plaster is old A quiet assignment, a story untold. You see the amber, the pattern on my face You're not just a stranger in a well-guarded place **[Refrain]** I wear the sun like armour, I keep the night beneath. You may follow every shadow, you may listen while I breathe. Come closer if you mean it, leave your certainty outside. I wear the sun like armour— but there is warmth I do not hide. **[Bridge – quieter, almost spoken]** I have been looked at. I have been wanted. I have been turned into a dream. Rideau de perles But you— stand there without asking me to become what you have seen. **[Long instrumental rise]** **[Final Refrain]** I wear the sun like armour, gold and amber, bone and flame. You cannot yet own the doorway, you may only speak my name. Come closer if you mean it. Come quietly, or not at all. I wear the sun like armour— **[Pause]** **[Outro – whispered over clicking beads]** —but for you, I might let it fall.
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