[Intro - whispered] sixty seconds it only took sixty seconds to come home [Verse] I rented every room I ever lived in Every window, every door Somebody else's keys Somebody else's floor So I wiped it all at midnight Five quiet questions, then the light And before the minute ended It was mine, and it was right [Pre-Chorus] Encrypted to the bone So nobody can open it but me Every key on this machine Is a key that I put there [Chorus] Malleable Malleable If I don't love it, I can change it I can say it plain, in English, in the dark And the whole thing rearranges They hear a kingdom in the name But there was never any throne Omarchy It's the first room I could move the walls in It's the first thing I've called home [Verse] Kanagawa when it's raining Osaka Jade when I am brave Vantablack for all the evenings That I don't know how to save Twenty-four colors repainting The terminal and the lock Even the screen goes quiet When I ask the screen to stop [Pre-Chorus] There's a lamp on in the panel There's a voice that doesn't sleep I ask for what I want out loud And it builds the thing I meant I read it back at midnight Line by line across the desk Half past three and it's still open Half past three and I'm not lost [Chorus] Malleable Malleable If I don't love it, I can change it I can say it plain, in English, in the dark And the whole thing rearranges They hear a kingdom in the name But there was never any throne Omarchy It's the first room I could move the walls in It's the first thing I've called home [Verse] Three hundred strangers built a clock Because they didn't like the clock Gave it back for nothing And they never signed their name And the boy I was at fourteen On a bulletin board at night Green text and a modem humming Would have recognized this light [Bridge - half time, sparse] I pulled the calendar down tonight Just to watch the year go by Sixty-three percent already And it only goes one way Then it asked me when I got here And how long I think I'll stay And it drew a second line in And I did not close the window Memento mori Memento mori Everything I make will end Make the thing anyway Make the thing anyway [Verse - quiet, settling] Nothing overlaps in here No window buried under window Every hour is where I left it It opens and it makes room My hands know where everything is And my hands are finally calm up, full choir] Malleable Malleable Nothing over me And nothing underneath Just a room I get to move And a life I get to keep They hear a kingdom in the name But there was never any throne Omarchy It's the first room I could move the walls in It's the only thing I own [Outro] Sixty seconds Sixty seconds Come home The snapshot will remember. Everything else forgets.
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