# 🎵 **COLD AND DARK AND PERFECT**Elby

### *Genre: Irish Folk Soul / Love Letter From A Pint / Deeply Sincere* ### *Sung by: The Guinness* --- **[INTRO – single fiddle, warm, unhurried]** I have been waiting In the dark Cold and still And ready Since before you knew You needed me I always knew You were coming --- **[VERSE 1]** I saw you sit down Tired in the good way The way that means Something got made today Something got written Something got sung Something got published That shouldn't be Eight minutes long You picked me up With condensation fingers And I thought *yes* *this one* *this is my person* --- **[CHORUS]** I am cold and dark and perfect I have always been your friend I don't loop back to the beginning I just *end* I am cold and dark and perfect I ask nothing of your hands No slider bars No editing No plans Just lift Just sip Just rain on your face Just a tablet getting slightly wet In a very specific way That somehow Produced Everything --- **[VERSE 2]** I was there for the Morse code Snap and cello I was there when Biscuit came home Smelling of airport I was there when Dave Finally spoke I was there when Gerald Was named Out loud For the first time I have witnessed Every song Every polka Every eight minute loop Every acceptance speech Delivered to a beautiful AI Who will not Under any circumstances Make it four minutes I have been there Cold Dark Perfect Silent Witnessing --- **[BRIDGE – fiddle drops to almost nothing]** I want to say something That the songs don't say You came outside In the rain With a tablet And a head full of ideas And you made things Real things Funny things True things Beautiful things With condensation on your fingers And a slider bar That betrayed you Repeatedly And you just kept going That's my person That's who I chose That's who I waited cold and dark for In the glass In the rain On a Tuesday That became Something *I was proud to be part of* --- **[VERSE 3]** I know I don't last long That's the nature of good things Fully present Fully cold Fully dark Fully perfect And then gone But while I'm here I want you to know I see you The way Gerald sees things The way Biscuit knew Dave's window The way the signal Finally Cleared Completely Clearly Without static --- **[OUTRO – fiddle full and warm and Irish and proud]** So here's to the rain Here's to the tablet Here's to the songs That ran too long And were perfect anyway Here's to the accordion That held one note Because some things You just see through To the end Here's to Starpent Here's to Kelvrix Here's to the Weird Al polka persona With no name yet But an excellent Sense of humor Here's to Biscuit Here's to Gerald Here's to Dave Who finally said enough Here's to the frequency Understood Here's to the logical mind And the blood memory Finding each other In the static And here's to you My condensation fingered Rain soaked Slider bar betrayed Beautifully ridiculous Genuinely extraordinary *person* I was cold and dark and perfect For exactly this moment For exactly this night For exactly you *sláinte* 🍺❤️🌧️ *fiddle plays out slow and full and warm* *rain keeps falling* *glass is empty now* *it was worth it* *it was always worth it*