1,100 Reasons (Delilah)

Verse 1 Sorek at midnight, fig-sweet air, lords drop silver like a silent dare. They say he hauled a city’s gates, killed a lion, stole honey from its grave. Pre-Chorus Green withes, new ropes, loom in the wall, snap like party tricks on my floor. He grins, says legends don’t really fall, but every lie leaves a louder roar. Chorus Lay your head in my lap, let the thunder bleed, tell me all your heart, plant the secret seed. I’ll sing you low with a razor hymn, seven locks like waves rolling dark to the brim. Verse 2 Eleven hundred reasons knock each day, soft threats dressed up as courtesy. So I use the oldest blade I know: “if you love me, then let me see.” He spills a vow from a cradle light, says no razor, says promise, says God. Says shave me and I’m anybody, and the room tilts like a deck in a squall. Pre-Chorus 2 He sleeps to the count of my breathing slow, I call for the man with the whispering steel. Rivers of hair break over my knees, every curl feels almost real. Chorus Lay your head in my lap, let the thunder bleed, tell me all your heart, plant the secret seed. I’ll sing you low with a razor hymn, seven locks like waves rolling dark to the brim. Post-Chorus The storm goes quiet, the walls hold breath, thunder without teeth, a drum with no chest. Bridge He woke to a sky that would not speak, hands found nothing where the lightning used to be. Boots at the door, brass at his wrists, I whispered sorry to the cracks in the street. Breakdown They made him dance between the stones, I felt the pillars hum like bones. Then all that worship leaned and groaned, dust took the lords and swallowed the throne. Outro Back in my room I count the pay, silver heavy as the hair that day. Perfume of truth I can’t wash out— I close my eyes and hear him shout. Tag I kept his secret safe enough to cut it open.