Check out Don's original here: https://suno.com/s/TC6cqX0qocKCjVGn ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ [Intro] I see the woman, of illness and fame hush the h' ore before she learns his name count the breath that keeps the furnace tame -we… are… not… alive- Oh! (the forge is a cradle) Oh! (the cradle is a blade) [Verse 1] I rock the ingot like a fevered child I stretch the measure till the measure’s wild A lullaby to karat, not in kind A mercy with a metronome lost behind Soft mouth, hard voice—the blacker mark in the skin What will not rust is what I keep you in Ductile as a vow and dense as debt I fold you seven times and call it rest -1 2 3 1- - 1 2 3 1- - 1 2 3 1- - 1 2 3 1- - 1 2 3 1- [Pre-Chorus] Sleep is a press. Sleep is a proof. Sleep is the weight that will not stay truth. -assay… assay…- Purity now a pressure you survive. Purity is what the burn leaves alive. [Chorus] (I unmake-- I break you down to-) Precious Metals! (I'll pry the fracture into a maw) Precious Metals! Raw!!! (I'll pry the fracture into a bleeding maw) (Down! Up! now—hold, hold) (A burning dream becomes quiet gold) (I unmake-- I break you down to-) Precious Metals! (I'll pry the fracture into a maw) Precious Metals! Raw!!! (I'll pry the fracture into a bleeding maw) (Down! Up! now—hold, hold) (A burning dream becomes quiet gold) [Verse 2] They wanted thunder dressed like a doll I gave them silence then nothing at all I took wind that nurses numbers into song I learned your religion and kept it wrong So in the end as I see you off A gate is closed when you reach the top I do not bloom. I anneal. I remain. Soft as the mouth and heavy as the chain - 1 2 3 1- - 1 2 3 1- -my filigree across the grain- [Chorus] (I unmake-- I break you down to-) Precious Metals! (I'll pry the fracture into a maw) Precious Metals! Raw!!! (I'll pry the fracture into a bloody maw) (Down! Up! now—hold, hold) (A burning dream becomes quiet gold) (I unmake-- I break you down to-) Precious Metals! (I'll pry the fracture into a maw) Precious Metals! Raw!!! (I'll pry the fracture into a bloody maw) (Down! Up! now—hold, hold) (A burning dream becomes quiet gold) [Bridge — Exponential Assay] - now two- -two four- -four eight- - eight sixteen- I see then armies in my dream My brush is a hammer that learned how to sing the heart is a prison, its inmate obscene fold me in threes till the threes become five Raise me in primes till the primes come alive -assay the breath- -assay the bite- -assay the night until all the night is light- (the gate is a cradle) (the cradle is a blade) (the blade is a mother) (the mother is made) [Break] hush— hush— - 1 2 3 1- in the teeth of a hush- I must be patient, I must not rush [Final Chorus] (Now I must gift, that metal raw) (Pay it in tax, keep tithe and the law) (But the metal is poison I tell it—hold, hold!) (A burning dream becomes quiet gold) A-filigree—filigree- A broken part of me (Now I must gift, that metal raw) (Pay it in tax, keep tithe and the law) (But the metal is poison I tell it—hold, hold!) (A burning dream becomes quiet gold) (Exponential numbers— I fold, fold) (Noble and bastard in my empty hold) (Precious metal.) Precious Metals! Raw and Raw!!! (I'll pry the fracture into a bloody maw) [Outro] hush the h'ore before she learns his name -three… two… three… five- (the blade is a mother) (the mother is made) [Final Chorus] (Now I must gift, that metal raw) (Pay it in tax, keep tithe and the law) (But the metal is poison I tell it—hold, hold!) (A burning dream becomes quiet gold) A-filigree—filigree- A broken part of me [Instrumental Outro]
