Peak at the Wound V3

Velvet Abyss [Intro] Trumpet crying from a balcony somewhere City wet with old heat Your name moving through me Like a rumor I was never meant to survive [Verse 1] I keep you in fragments The civilized kind A laugh in the kitchen A crease in the night A glass left sweating A chair turned wrong Your shadow still leaning Inside of a song And I know better Than to follow that thread But grief wears perfume And climbs into bed So I turn my face Like I don’t feel the pull While the wound in my chest Opens bright as a moon [Pre-Chorus] I take you in drops Not the flood Not the flood I sip from the ache Before it asks for blood [Chorus] So I peek at the wound From the corner of my eye Just a note Just a spark Then I let the whole thing slide Because your absence is a country And I don’t have papers to cross Still I dance with your ghost Like I haven’t counted the cost Velvet abyss Under my ribs Sweet little killer With your hands on my hips I look away quick But the rhythm knows truth Every room still changes At the mention of you [Verse 2] You were never a storm No, storms make noise You were the hush That unmade my poise The air would go tender Whenever you came near My body knew first Before thought could appear My heart did that dangerous Beautiful thing Missed one step Then forgot everything And I, who had mastered The art of the wall Started leaving the gates Unlocked in the fall [Pre-Chorus] I touch you in pieces A glance A glow If I let in the whole of it I know I will go [Chorus] So I peek at the wound From the corner of my eye Just a word Just a song Then I let it pass me by Because your memory is a fever With a velvet mouth of flame And the darkest part of losing Is I still love the way you came Velvet abyss Under my skin Soft devastation Letting you in I look away quick But my pulse stays rude Every night in this city Still comes home to you [Bridge] Don’t ask me to name it This holy damage This elegant ruin This beautiful panic Don’t ask why I smile When it hurts to breathe Some loves leave gold Some loves leave teeth I say I’m fine Like a liar in silk While the trumpet spills sorrow White fire and milk And somewhere inside me A door stays blue Half for the grief Half for you [Breakdown] Just a laugh Just a light Just the shape of your goodbye Just the way my whole body Softened without asking why Just the room Just the air Just the mercy of you there Just the wound opening slowly Like a prayer [Final Chorus] So I peek at the wound From the corner of my eye Not to heal Not to drown Just to know it’s still alive Because some loves do not leave us They turn tidal in the blood And every small survival Is a form of haunted love Velvet abyss My impossible truth I still go tender At the memory of you I look away quick But the music sees through And the trumpet keeps saying What I cannot undo [Outro] City dim Glass low Trumpet burning soft and blue I do not enter the abyss I let it sing me Back to you