03. House Without a Half

[Intro - piano and cello, no vocals] [Verse 1] There is a chair across the table That has learned to stare at me. There is a plate I never set, A cup beside a ghost of tea. The television opens countries, Wars, documentaries, weather, rain; But facts become a locked museum When no beloved shares the frame. [Pre-Chorus] They say enjoy the single hour, They say let Jesus take the load; But even faith can hear the echo Of two feet absent from the road. [Explosive Chorus] A house without a half still calls for home, A lamp still burns for someone yet unknown. I do not want a body without a soul; I want the hand that makes the memory whole. A house without a half, a room without reply, I keep my standards burning under the sky. [Verse 2] It was never merely hunger, Never flesh without a vow; I wanted walks, and shared departures, And a future starting now. Holidays without a witness Turn to postcards no one reads; A life can look successful While it starves in deeper needs. [Duet Moment] Female voice: Would you lower every longing? Lex: No, not for a counterfeit flame. Female voice: Would you wait beyond the winter? Lex: I have waited through my name. [Bridge - slow build] Do not call me finished Because no ring has found my hand. Do not call me lesser For a silence I did not plan. The heart is not a cupboard Where affection goes to sleep; It is a chapel under thunder, And the bell still rings deep. [Verse 3 - memory room] I have conversations stored like dresses never worn, Family names inside me waiting to be born. A dinner table can be torture when the future has a chair, And the other half of laughter is not breathing in the air. Still I polish the idea of a loyal human home, Not because I am incomplete, but because love should not roam As a market, as a hunger, as a careless open door; I want the sacred ordinary, not a substitute for more. [High Pre-Chorus] Let the choir not pity me; Let it crown the truth instead. There are vows still living In the rooms I have not led. [Final Chorus - sing once] A house without a half still calls for home, A lamp still burns for someone yet unknown. If love arrives with truth and grace, Let memory finally have a face. [Outro - 4 bars, no vocals] [END PART 1] [Verse 3] The bills split no mercy, The kitchen dreams in bulk; The cupboard knows economy, The night knows every sulk. Friends arrive as couples, Doors close softly after wine; I smile like a polite cathedral With a cracked and private shrine. [Pre-Chorus] If desire has a conscience, Let it keep a candle lit. If loneliness has teeth, Let wisdom sit with it. [Chorus - full choir bloom] A house without a half still calls for home, A bed still dreams of vows not carved in stone. I will not trade the sacred for the near; I will not crown confusion just from fear. A house without a half still dares to sing: Love is not a toy; love is a wing. [Surreal Middle Eight] An unborn photograph whispers from the wall, A wedding bell sleeps inside a spoon. The moon sets two places on the floor, Then leaves before noon. I gather all the futures That never learnt my street, And teach my empty hallway To stay tender, not defeat. [Verse 4 - the absent beloved answers in silence] If she exists beyond the traffic of algorithms and delay, Let her come with moral weather, not with games that rot the day. Let the walks become cathedrals, let the errands become wine, Let the television learn to breathe when her shoulder leans on mine. But if she does not come by winter, if the hallway keeps its ghost, I will not sell the altar to the first who flatters most. [Quiet Explosion] Love is a kingdom of consent, A table where the truth is fed; Not every warm hand is a home, Not every hunger should be led. [Moral Refrain] Ethical desire must not bow to counterfeit intimacy. The lonely heart must still protect its dignity. Waiting is not weakness when the waiting keeps truth whole; The right love must honour the body and the soul. [Final Chorus - all voices, repeat once only] A house without a half still calls for home, But I am not nothing while I walk alone. Let the lamp burn clean, let the false doors close; Love will be love only if truth knows. [Outro - brief strings, no vocals] [END SONG]