Roots of Karametra - Lantern In The Greenhouse

The city lost power three nights ago But your greenhouse still glows warm Lantern light through climbing ivy Like summer refusing the storm You’re barefoot on the tile floor laughing Hair tied back with garden twine Smelling like basil and woodsmoke And the rain drifting in from outside There’s a kettle singing softly Old records skipping low And every time you touch my shoulder The whole room seems to slow Outside the sirens keep crying Outside the towers decay But here among the hanging vines The fear just melts away You are my lantern in the greenhouse My warmth beneath the rain The soft light in the ruined city Still teaching life to stay And every vine wrapped round the rafters Every root beneath the floor Feels like the earth itself is telling me I don’t have to wander anymore You keep jars full of saved seeds Labeled carefully by year Tiny futures on the windowsill Waiting patiently somewhere near And you talk about tomatoes Like they’re sacred little things Like tending life with your own hands Is still the purest form of peace I’ve seen people worship money Seen them kneel before machines But I swear your quiet kindness Feels closer to divinity Outside the sirens keep crying Outside the towers decay But here your hand reaching for mine The fear just melts away You are my lantern in the greenhouse My calm inside the flood The steady pulse beneath the static The green inside my blood And if the whole world keeps collapsing If the skyline finally falls I’d still call this place heaven Just dancing slow beside you in the dark Stay with me When the rain hits the rooftop hard When the windows shake from distant thunder Stay with me When the old world finally tires itself out And the vines reclaim the walls Stay with me Yeah, stay with me… Late night glow where the leaf shadows sway Rain tap rhythm on the old window pane Bassline roll through the roots and rafters City gone dark but the greenhouse laughter Slow dance barefoot while the storm cloud turning Mint tea steam and the lanterns burning STAY WITH ME! You are my lantern in the greenhouse Still glowing soft and true And every broken thing around us Feels less broken next to you You are my lantern in the greenhouse Where the wildflowers climb the walls And if love survives the ending We’re just two souls with enough worth giving