[Verse 1] I watched you crumble into silence Marble eyes and painted skin Courtroom whispers Cold as iron Said I'd never touch you again Snow on the threshold Years in my hair I spoke to the stone like a lover Pretending you were there [Chorus] But the statue starts to breathe Color flooding back to grief You were never really gone Just waiting in the freeze All the time they called it madness I was talking to your ghost Now your pulse is under my palm And I am losing what I lost [Verse 2] Boy with my sorrow in his cheekbones Grew up in a borrowed field Dancing with a girl in flowers Who wore our missing shield Crowns fell over clumsy foreheads Kings knelt in the dirt Truth crawled out of broken stories Every lie began to hurt [Chorus] And the statue starts to breathe Color flooding back to grief You were never really gone Just waiting in the freeze All the time they called it madness I was talking to your ghost Now your pulse is under my palm And I am losing what I lost [Bridge] Can a winter learn forgiveness? Can a tyrant learn to kneel? I spent a lifetime on a rumor Now your heartbeat makes it real (oh) [Chorus] Now the statue starts to breathe Every crack in me relieved You were never really gone Just buried in the scene All the time they called it madness But your fingers fold in mine I get one impossible ending For a life of wasted time
