
Quiet Stack
[Hook: Latching summit-lung male vocalist, loud, latching, belted] This page was warm before I found it Margin holds a sentence somebody left unfinished I came in dry, I stay because the pencil is true Belt the line like it was always owed to you [Verse 1: Latching summit-lung male vocalist, latching, measured] Rain drove me sideways through a door I did not choose Library air was paper-warm, my coat still shedding news Carrel at the end with a lamp left on low I meant to wait the squall out, keep my head down close Hand found the book the way a drowning finds a rope Page worn soft by strangers who needed more than hope I told myself five minutes, then the strings began to rise Measured kick beneath them like a heart that will not disguise [Verse 2: Latching summit-lung male vocalist, latching, warmer] Margin note in pencil finishes a half-built thought Different hand, same hunger for the thing I sought I am nobody to them, a silhouette in damp Yet the page under my palm feels like a stamped Receipt that beauty still can sit inside a room Without a ticket, without needing me to bloom Latching soft into a chest that wants to run Hard song, honest paper, no shortcut and no pun [Verse 3: Latching summit-lung male vocalist, page warm, latching, belted] Palm finds page warm smoothed by a stranger's wait Strings climb with the heat like a map of where care lands late I mouth the finished line before I know I will Voice breaks into open like a door across a hill Nobody turns to look, the lamp seals the day I leave the book open warmer than I found it, then I stray Rain has quit, the street is clean, my coat is almost dry Quiet stack still humming with a line that was not mine to buy [Bridge: Latching summit-lung male vocalist, loud, latching, belted] Grip the page, lift the chest Beauty hits harder when it will not rest Page warm, rain outside I sang a line I did not sign [Hook: Latching summit-lung male vocalist, loud, latching, belted] This page was warm before I found it Margin holds a sentence somebody left unfinished I came in dry, I stay because the pencil is true Belt the line like it was always owed to you [Outro: Latching summit-lung male vocalist, quiet huge, rising strings ring out and fade] Page warm, still holding Tell the stack I kept singing [End]

