(Vox 1): The year turns like a slow black wheel (Vox 1): Shadows lengthen on the temple wall (Vox 1): Pages open, the ink runs deep (Vox 1): My name is whispered… if it’s there at all (Vox 2): Apples on the table, their sweetness stained (Vox 2): By the weight of all I could not mend (Vox 2): Honey drips like time from the comb (Vox 2): Gold and slow… until the end (Pre-Chorus – Vox 1): The air is heavy, the candles low (Pre-Chorus – Vox 1): I taste the night in every breath I know (Chorus – Vox 1 & 2): Write my name in the book tonight (Chorus – Vox 1 & 2): Let the past fall into the firelight (Chorus – Vox 1 & 2): Sweet and bitter, we taste it all (Chorus – Vox 1 & 2): At the turning of the year’s long hall [Instrumental break – slow bass drone, guitar swells] (Vox 1): The shofar calls through the empty streets (Vox 1): Low and aching, like a funeral hymn (Vox 1): Every note a stone upon the soul (Vox 1): Every echo pulling me in (Vox 2): We gather in the dimming light (Vox 2): Faces pale, but our hands are warm (Vox 2): We break the bread, we drink the wine (Vox 2): And pray the pages take no harm (Pre-Chorus – Vox 1): The gates are closing, the hour is late (Pre-Chorus – Vox 1): I feel the weight of every fate (Chorus – Vox 1 & 2): Write my name in the book tonight (Chorus – Vox 1 & 2): Let the past fall into the firelight (Chorus – Vox 1 & 2): Sweet and bitter, we taste it all (Chorus – Vox 1 & 2): At the turning of the year’s long hall (Chorus – Vox 1 & 2, slower and heavier): Write my name in the book tonight (Chorus – Vox 1 & 2): Let the past fall into the firelight (Chorus – Vox 1 & 2): Sweet and bitter, we taste it all (Chorus – Vox 1 & 2): At the turning of the year’s long hall (Vox 1): Apples and honey on my tongue (Vox 1): The weight of a thousand dawns (Vox 1): May the year be written in light (Vox 1): Before the darkness
