Glass in the River

[Verse 1] I found a cup in the sink filled with yesterday’s moon and I drank it standing up like a man with a borrowed name The house kept its opinions the floorboards kept score every step said you are still becoming [Pre-Chorus] A cracked bowl holds the sky better than a spotless one and what spills first is often what saves us [Chorus] We are glass in the river held by the moving held by the moving We are glass in the river and the water remembers our shape [Verse 2] My mother’s silence was a heavy coat on the chair my father’s laugh was a nail in the wall I learned that grief can be a seed if you stop calling it ruin and let it go dark [Pre-Chorus] A cracked bowl holds the sky better than a spotless one and what spills first is often what saves us [Chorus] We are glass in the river held by the moving held by the moving We are glass in the river and the water remembers our shape [Bridge] If meaning is a door then loss is the hand on the knob If love is a wound then mercy is the breath around it I used to ask for answers now I ask for weather for a window that opens while the storm is still singing [Final Chorus] We are glass in the river held by the moving held by the moving We are glass in the river and the water remembers our shape We are glass in the river and still we gleam and still we gleam