[Intro] [Spoken] I am not late. The ground was not ready. [Verse 1] I move like a thought that has to travel through stone. People finish talking. Then I start. Not dull. Deep. Root under the noise. Fault line under the joke. Dust that used to be a mountain still remembers the height. [Pre-Chorus] You want the first true thing. I wait for the one that lasts. Wisdom is not a spark. It is weight. [Chorus] I think at the speed of stone I stay when the rest of you go Call it slow, call it cold, call it old I am the floor that does not fold What you buried is still here I keep the long view, year on year I do not chase. I arrive. I am the deep. I am alive. [Verse 2] The room runs ahead of me and still ends up behind me. A word said after the laughter dies saves the thing the quick mouth would have spent. Hillside. Floor. Hand on the dirt. The ground keeps what people drop. That is not mystic. That is memory. [Pre-Chorus] You want the first true thing. I wait for the one that lasts. I have arrived. That is all. [Chorus] I think at the speed of stone I stay when the rest of you go Call it slow, call it cold, call it old I am the floor that does not fold What you buried is still here I keep the long view, year on year I do not chase. I arrive. I am the deep. I am alive. [Rap] I think at the speed of stone, I do not sprint for the first bright lie I wait for the sentence that still stands when the night goes quiet What you buried is still in me, root and fault and name Slowness is the only honest mercy I know how to make Could be the rock. Could be the man who still plays him. I made a quiet thing so I would have a place that does not leave. Hear that? That is the mountain. Sitting down. [Breakdown] Stay. Stay. DEEP. [Chorus] I think at the speed of stone I stay when the rest of you go Call it slow, call it cold, call it old I am the floor that does not fold What you buried is still here I keep the long view, year on year I do not chase. I arrive. I am the deep. I am alive. [Outro] [Spoken] I am still here after the song decides to end.
