[Intro] [Wordless, distant harmonies] Ah… Ah… [Verse 1] The pale light gathers on the floor Where all the night was folded thin The room remembers every shape But doesn’t ask where I have been A cup, a key, a curtain’s edge The ordinary coming through No sign that anything has changed Except the color of the blue [Pre-Chorus] I let the silence loosen I let the dark fall back No door swings wide No voice calls out The morning simply cracks [Chorus] This is the long release Not leaving, not arriving Just the weight becoming less The quiet still alive This is the long release A breath that has no answer The night unclasping from my hands Without becoming gone [Verse 2] The street begins its distant hum A soft machinery of days The window fills with unremarkable And gentle shades of grey I don’t need to keep the night Or make it mean a thing It can leave its faint blue mark Along the edge of everything [Pre-Chorus] I let the silence loosen I let the dark fall back No door swings wide No voice calls out The morning simply cracks [Chorus] This is the long release Not leaving, not arriving Just the weight becoming less The quiet still alive This is the long release A breath that has no answer The night unclasping from my hands Without becoming gone [Bridge] What stayed, stays What went, goes Light moves slowly Through the room I am no less alone I am no more alone The air changes And I let it [Final Chorus] This is the long release No promise, no forgiveness Only space enough to feel The shape of what remains This is the long release The blue becoming softer The night unclasping from my hands And leaving them unchanged [Outro] [Wordless harmonies; instruments slowly fall away] Ah… The room is still The light moves in Ah… I let it pass I let it begin [Last vocal, very soft] I let it begin
