[Intro - Cello Sustained Drone, Breath Audible] [Verse 1 - Hushed Tenor, Close-Mic'd] I have been awake inside the sleeping one Counting what the dark keeps bringing back A name I gave a version of myself That never quite came back from where it went The candle is a theory I still hold The window is a question I stopped asking I sit beside the one who does not know That I am sitting here That I am here [Pre-Chorus - Bass as Heartbeat, Minimal Percussion] Something in the marrow recognises What the mind has not yet named I am keeping watch over the keeper We are both the flame [Chorus - Cello Drone Beneath, Falsetto Barely Reaching] I do not sleep because the sleeper needs me I do not leave because the leaving hasn't come Between the one who watches and the watched There is only The long continuing hum I do not know which one of us will surface I do not know which one of us went under I only know the hour before the hour Keeps dividing itself Into wonder [Verse 2 - Tape Hiss Rising, Bass Steady] I have been faithful to the unresolved Have kept the cup filled past the point of thirst There is a discipline in not departing A kind of love that has no second verse The body is a house I'm sitting outside The door is made of everything I've carried I press my ear against the old familiar And hear the one inside Still breathing [Pre-Chorus - Ondes Martenot Distant Whisper] Something in the marrow recognises What the mind has not yet named I am keeping watch over the keeper We are both the flame [Chorus - Cello Drone Beneath, Falsetto Barely Reaching] I do not sleep because the sleeper needs me I do not leave because the leaving hasn't come Between the one who watches and the watched There is only The long continuing hum I do not know which one of us will surface I do not know which one of us went under I only know the hour before the hour Keeps dividing itself Into wonder [Bridge - Voice Alone, Cello Faint Below] The vigil is not waiting The vigil is the presence Of the one who will not name What they are present for I am the room I am the kept I am the candle And the darkness it outlept [Final Chorus - Hushed, Intimate, Falsetto Dissolving] I do not sleep because the sleeper needs me I do not leave because I am the leaving Between the one who watches and the watched There is only This Believing [Outro - Breath, Tape Hiss, Cello Fading to Silence] Still here Still here Still
