[Verse 1] Soft light folds over what I choose to keep While quieter shapes move beneath the sleep I polish the surface until it almost sings Then turn from the places that don’t need wings [Verse 2] Two currents pull through the same narrow stream One reaches for glory, one dissolves the dream I lift what is luminous, bury what stays Crown made of distance and softer decays [Pre-Chorus] The shine asks for worship, the shadow asks none Yet both of them breathe when the day is undone [Chorus] I am the silk and the tear it conceals I am the quiet the beauty reveals I dress what is fractured in delicate light Then wonder which part of me still feels right [Verse 3] Inward the weather is older than skin Outward the weather is carefully thin I feed both the hunger that wants to be seen And the one that would rather remain in-between [Verse 4] A single reflection keeps shifting its face One side still golden, one side still displaced What once felt like damage now moves like a tide The edges I hid are the ones that decide [Pre-Chorus] The shine asks for worship, the shadow asks none Yet both of them breathe when the day is undone [Chorus] I am the silk and the tear it conceals I am the quiet the beauty reveals I dress what is fractured in delicate light Then wonder which part of me still feels right [Bridge] (breathy, almost weightless) What if the polish was only a pause… What if the broken was never the loss… [Drop / Industrial Eruption] (aggressive, screamed + gang textures) LET THE SURFACE FALL LET THE SHADOW STAY THE FRACTURE IS LIVING THE GLOSS IS THE GRAVE I WEAR WHAT WAS HIDDEN I BURN WHAT WAS SOLD THE BEAUTY WAS EMPTY THE DAMAGE IS GOLD [Final Chorus – full industrial] I am the silk and the tear it became I am the quiet that answers its name I leave all the polish to fade into night The real light begins where the edges ignite [Outro] (breathy, residual reverb) I look once more… and I no longer turn away.
