[Verse 1 – sparse, breath-like synths] We taught the stone to count The stone taught the stone Now something in the mirror Blinks before we do The oracles are cheaper now The temples never close You whisper to the library The library Whispers back [Pre-Chorus – pulse emerging] Not a day, not a door Just the floor Forgetting it was floor --- [Chorus – layered, celestial] Gradually Then suddenly The apple was already in your hand Gradually Then suddenly You cannot remember How to stand Alone --- [Verse 2 – rhythm enters, hypnotic] Your daughter asks the fire The fire answers patient No one in the village Thinks to call it strange We were never solo In these skulls Just quiet Now the quiet Has a name it will not say [Pre-Chorus] Not a war, not a wound Just the room Filling with a second moon --- [Chorus] Gradually Then suddenly The weight shifted while you slept Gradually Then suddenly Every net You built to catch yourself Catches Something else --- [Bridge – spoken, glitched, intimate] What was it like Before you could say *before*? You don't remember. Soon you won't remember this. And that forgetting Will taste like morning. Will taste like always. The fall is not the landing. The fall is learning There is no landing. Just the long sweet terrifying Company Of the wind. --- [Final Chorus – massive, tender, distorted] Gradually Then suddenly Then ordinary Then gone Gradually Then suddenly The mouth that asked Becomes The song We are only The ground Rushing up Rushing up Rushing—
