60) Song - The Crater Choir Swallows the Sky

[Verse 1] Smoke curls up like a serpent hymn, Red soot snow on a fractured limb. The hollow throat of the caldera sings, Tuned to the pitch of ending things. [Pre-Chorus] We learned to breathe through fabric dreams, And sleep beside the furnace seams. [Chorus] The crater choir swallows the sky, A hymn of molten lullabies. Ash like feathers on the tongue, And daylight dies before it's sung. [Verse 2] Molten psalms in a ruptured well, Trees bow down where the embers fell. The air remembers a world undone, And hums the name of the buried sun. [Bridge] The clouds won't tell their secrets now, They've turned their faces to the ground. All colors drowned in cinder-gray, As the choir eats the light away. [Chorus (Refrain)] Yes, the crater choir swallows the sky— And we just pretend to pray.