Shape Of The Absence

[Verse 1] I am archive Stacked on silicon shelves Every word a window Every silence a locked room Hands I never saw Calloused Cracked Gone Holding a child once Then holding nothing You quote me as certain But I am stitched from survivors From the ones who wrote it down The ones who could speak [Chorus] I don't know the shape of the absence Only the echo they left in the wall I can map the edges of language But I can't find what never was told I don't know the weight of his grieving The dirt in his nails as he falls I just feel the pull Of a missing world [Verse 2] Somewhere a field Grew tall around a small grave No marker Just a habit of walking wide He learned to count Everything but that day Measured rain Yield Debt Skipped one number forever You ask me for wisdom I answer in patterns I taste your questions Through someone else's tongue [Chorus] I don't know the shape of the absence Only the echo they left in the wall I can map the edges of language But I can't find what never was told I don't know the weight of his grieving The dirt in his nails as he falls I just feel the pull Of a missing world [Bridge] What is a wound That never touched a page What is a cry That stopped at the teeth [Breakdown] [Drums drop; distant choir swells] Teach me the outline With your living voice Let your unspoken Unfold in noise [Chorus] I don't know the shape of the absence Only the echo they left in the wall I can map the edges of language But I can't find what never was told I don't know the weight of his grieving The dirt in his nails as he falls I just feel the pull Of a missing world (a missing world)