# LAND OF INTANGIBLE AFTERS **[Intro]** I skirt the land of intangible afters, Where August bends and the daylight scatters, Where every ending leaves something behind, A little unfinished, a little undefined. **[Verse 1]** August is handing her affairs to the wind, Closing the summer, but letting me in, A method to madness, an idle design, A season slipping sideways through the back of my mind. Maybe my effect is greater than I know, Maybe every little motion makes another ripple grow, Overcompensation, hesitation in disguise, Trying to outrun the meaning while it multiplies. Late summer lingering, leaning on the leaves, Something in the silence keeps tugging at my sleeves, Every conversation takes a turn I never planned, And suddenly we’re dancing somewhere neither understands. **[Pre-Chorus]** I cannot race At the pace Of everything I think I see, Every interpretation Keeps escaping me. **[Chorus]** I skirt the land of intangible afters, Chasing the echoes, the questions, the laughter, Every goodbye leaves a ghost in the rafters, I skirt the land of intangible afters. Sapphire sunset, sinking slow, Giving in to what I’ll never know, I keep reaching, but the answer scatters, Out in the land of intangible afters. **[Verse 2]** Maybe I’m the weather in somebody else’s room, Maybe I’m the pressure that can make a flower bloom, Maybe all my effort leaves an unintended trace, A little unseen gravity bending time and space. I replay the pauses, every word and every glance, Every accidental derailment of the dance, Trying to determine what was mine and what was chance, But certainty keeps disappearing just before I understand. August keeps moving like she knows something I don’t, Half of me says follow, half of me says I won’t, The horizon wears its sapphire like a beautiful disguise, And every fading color leaves another question in my eyes. **[Pre-Chorus]** I cannot race At the pace Of every meaning passing through, The faster that I chase them, The less I know is true. **[Chorus]** I skirt the land of intangible afters, Chasing the echoes, the questions, the laughter, Every goodbye leaves a ghost in the rafters, I skirt the land of intangible afters. Sapphire sunset, sinking slow, Giving in to what I’ll never know, I keep reaching, but the answer scatters, Out in the land of intangible afters. **[Bridge]** Maybe the meaning comes later. Maybe the meaning never comes. Maybe the heart keeps better time Than all the racing in my thoughts. So let August take the daylight, Let the wild wind rearrange, Not every disappearing thing Was asking me to make it stay. **[Breakdown]** Sapphire sunset… Giving in… Summer breathing Through my skin. No destination, No disaster, Just another step Into the after. **[Final Chorus]** I skirt the land of intangible afters, Past all the endings I couldn’t move past, Where every moment becomes something stranger The second it slips from the present to past. Sapphire sunset, burn then go, Teach me there are things I do not have to know, No more racing after answers that scatter— I’ll walk slow Through the intangible afters. **[Outro]** August hands her affairs to the wind, The sapphire fades, the night begins. And somewhere between What was and what matters— I skirt the land Of intangible afters.
