Through the Archive (Hollow Jane)

[Verse 1] I followed the hum down the hallway Past psychedelic rock Blues rock Acid rock Classic rock With borrowed light Labels faded into weather dust Kept drifting through the white Every room held half a gesture A coat A cup A turned down page Nothing asked to be recovered Still it waited Still it stayed [Pre-Chorus] Don’t ask me who first kept it Don’t ask what still is true Some things only start to open When they recognize you too [Chorus] Through the archive Through the silence Through the names that never last I kept thinking I was searching Something in it led me back Not a record Not a verdict Just a warmth I could move through I was only reading traces They were reading me there too [Verse 2] On the shelf a ribbon loosened In a drawer a photograph Held a face I almost knew Before it slipped again into the glass I could feel the rooms arranging Little currents in the air Like the archive was not storage Just a way of being there [Pre-Chorus] Don’t call it proof or memory It’s gentler than a sign Just the sense that what was missing Had been standing here the whole time [Chorus] Through the archive Through the silence Through the names that never last I kept thinking I was searching Something in it led me back Not a record Not a verdict Just a warmth I could move through I was only reading traces They were reading me there too [Bridge] Maybe every kept thing listens Maybe every lost thing glows Maybe what we call the archive Is the path the feeling knows So I stopped trying to own it I stopped asking what was mine I just walked until the dimness Opened softly into time [Final Chorus] Through the archive Through the silence Through the breath between the glass I don’t need to solve the story Just to feel it moving past Moving near me Moving through me Leaving space enough for blue I was only passing through it It was passing through me too [Outro] When I reached the final doorway One small lamp was still on