[Verse 1] Ten thousand years, a fixed and patient light, no want, no hunger, only distance kept. You walked below me on an ordinary night and the stillness I was came apart. I carried you home in my own two hands and kept you the way stars keep their orbit. [Chorus] I write my hunger into your skin in silver, a hundred small stars pressed into your throat. Ribbon and thread, you hang like an ornament, and I circle you slow, learning you like scripture. [Verse 2] Every tear you drop, I gather like a jewel. Now I have a reason to stay awake. [Chorus] [Bridge] They sent killers dressed like diplomats. I met them the way the tide meets the shore. I kept the sky dark. I kept her close. [Climax] The last blade came for my chest, aimed and sure. She moved before I saw the light. The spear found her instead. Water does not question the fall. [Outro] Calm when I answered the executioner and the court. Calm when I turned to the sky and answered every star that called this only a story.
