[Verse 1] Who told you silk meant safety? Darlin', that was me. I hung the dark with candlelight till the cold looked clean. I can't cross your threshold till your heart swings wide, so I make the asking yours to make and wait to be invited. [Pre-Chorus] Before you give it all your weight, I dim the door. I move the stakes. [Chorus - Hushed Ritual] Both feet off the solid ground. Both eyes closed. Let the silk come down. Say you want it. Say it twice. No one's taken. All are chosen. Drink it fast. Drink it deep. Lose the doorway in the dreaming. If you lose yourself to keep me, that's the feeding. Sleep. Both eyes woven. [Verse 2] Ask me anything you like. I've practiced every answer. Every question gets a welcome. Every worry gets embraced. Count the doors; I'll hold the candle-- they all waltz back to this floor. No mirrors in my parlor. That's the one test I can't take. You'll study all my openness all night and never once see me. [Pre-Chorus] Before the cost becomes your name, I move the door and praise your choice. [Verse 3 - Nearly Bare] I know the words that make them trust me. My tenderness has teeth. I drink what they surrender, one heartbeat at a time. Their warmth becomes my winter coat, their pulse becomes my wine. I wrap them white for church while my red glass turns through sleep. A thousand pages. A thousand midnights. I never faced first light. But once there came a quiet one who gave me one clean yes-- one dance beneath the candlelight, no promise past the song. She saw me dim the doorway, and her eyes went to the frame. She danced the whole dance lovely with one hand closed the same. Mid-turn she stopped the music with one plain quiet no-- and morning came in through my curtains like she'd told it where to go. She loved me whole and left at sunrise through a door I can't survive. [Turned Chorus - Music Stopped] Her feet stayed sure beneath her. Her closed hand held the key. The yes she spent on evening bought the evening--nothing more. She took the key out with her. The lock learned what it's for. If you'd lose yourself to keep me, you don't need me. [Final Verse - Beatless] Gone--and the door stood open. My web can hold the parts of you you choose to bring inside, but it can never hold the eye that tells you when to leave. So I turn the hourglass over and write the warning in the dark: [Outro - Cold Open Door] One foot on solid ground. One eye unwoven. God, I hope they never teach the others.
