THE UNEVEN LIGHT Cinematic Mystic Folk / Orchestral Art Ballad [Intro] Soft piano, distant cello, airy vocal hums Ooh… In the uneven light Ooh… There is another sky [Verse 1] The uneven light Falls softly through the room Not bright enough for answers Not dark enough for gloom I held the clouds inside my hands And watched them change their shape Some things are not meant to be owned But still they do not fade Don’t you see How I hold them as I do Not with chains But by letting them move through [Pre-Chorus] At the end of all real things When names fall from the stone There is something still becoming There is something still unknown [Chorus] It’s the heart That still grows Though it runneth over With the things it could not hold Stay here with us In the shadows tonight There is a new dimension In the uneven light The truth is not perfect The truth is not white It trembles like a candle In the uneven light [Verse 2] I tried to hold the morning But it slipped between the hours I tried to keep the river But it only taught me flowers Every grief I could not carry Every love I could not name Rose up like a hidden doorway Burning gently in the rain Don’t you see There are worlds beneath the skin Where the broken things Are learning how to sing again [Pre-Chorus 2] At the edge of what is certain Where the final shadows lean The soul becomes a window To a place we have not seen [Chorus] It’s the heart That still grows Though it runneth over With the things it could not hold Stay here with us In the shadows tonight There is a new dimension In the uneven light The truth is not perfect The truth is not white It trembles like a candle In the uneven light [Bridge] Drop to voice, piano, and cello Maybe heaven is not far away Maybe heaven is a wound Opening in silence Like a flower in a room Maybe all the things we lost Were never lost to flight Maybe they stayed here with us In the shadows of the light Strings begin to rise And every tear we swallowed Every dream we laid aside Is waiting in the doorway Of the world we keep inside [Build] Layered vocals, echoing like a chamber Hold the clouds Hold the rain Hold the love Hold the pain Not too tightly Not too long Let the silence Find its song At the end Of all we know Still the heart Still the heart grows [Final Chorus] Full orchestra, layered harmonies, wide reverberation It’s the heart That still grows Though it runneth over With the things it could not hold Stay here with us In the shadows tonight There is a new dimension In the uneven light The truth is not perfect The truth is alive It breaks through the darkness With tears in its eyes At the end of all real things When the soul takes flight We will find one another In the uneven light [Outro] Everything falls away: voice, cello, soft echo The clouds are in my hands But I let them move The heart runs over And still it blooms Ooh… There is a new dimension Ooh… In the uneven light
