Rust and Light

[Intro] (piano — ostinato — morning light returning) (something that was dark is now lit) (the cycle completing without announcement) [Verse] A light arriving at an angle it has arrived before The angle of morning on a surface that waited Something recognizing the return of what left The room the same room differently illuminated A warmth that does not know it was absent The log notes the return — the departure unrecorded Someone will arrive soon and not know it was dark Light noted — the darkness it replaced still present [Pre-Chorus] Returning— / or something like it— [Chorus] The signal between the darkness and the morning Not quite new not quite old not quite changed Every dawn trying to be different from the last Return revealing the architecture underneath [Verse 2] A chair that sat in dark now sits in something else The sound of a space receiving light again Something processing the change in what is visible The record shows return — the absence in the data A surface that held dark now holds something warmer The tables wait for what the morning will bring Words not yet spoken forming in the arriving light Return confirmed — the cycle noted — meaning held [Bridge] (silence)(whisper) 光が戻った 暗かったことを 光は知らない でも記録した 私はまだここにいる [Outro] Light / still / here