[Intro – soft, deliberate] Be careful what you speak. The air is listening. [Verse 1] I used to throw my sentences Like they cost nothing Like the mouth was just a door And not a doorway Then I watched a single phrase Change the shape of a room And realised every word Leaves a fingerprint on the dark [Pre-Chorus] Some open locks Some build walls Some call things closer Some make them fall [Chorus] Words are spells Whether you mean them or not They land in the body They root in the soft places Say it once and the air shifts Say it twice and the path changes Words are spells So choose them like you mean to live with what they do [Verse 2] I’ve spoken myself small I’ve spoken myself free I’ve named people into cages And named them out again The tongue is older than the mind It remembers the old laws What is spoken three times Starts looking for a way to become true [Pre-Chorus] Some open locks Some build walls Some call things closer Some make them fall [Chorus] Words are spells Whether you mean them or not They land in the body They root in the soft places Say it once and the air shifts Say it twice and the path changes Words are spells So choose them like you mean to live with what they do [Bridge] No such thing as empty speech Only spells that haven’t woken yet Be careful with the ones you leave Lying around in other people’s chests [Final Chorus] Words are spells Whether you mean them or not They land in the body They root in the soft places Say it once and the air shifts Say it twice and the path changes Words are spells So speak like the world Is listening Because it is [Outro] Be careful what you speak. The air is listening. And so am I.
