The Alchemist’s Harvest — Gilded

[Verse 1] I crossed the long summer, salt still bright on my skin, carrying names I had buried, carrying worlds within. I came back through the threshold with gold caught under my nails, every loss had left a language, every wound had left a trail. [Pre-Chorus] Heavy the season, bright the scar, I know now what the embers are. [Chorus] Now comes the harvest, now comes the flame, I breathe in the chaos, I call it by name. Turning shadow to form, memory to art, The Alchemist’s Harvest — the work of my heart. [Verse 2] Seeds I threw into darkness rose where nobody came, some became fruit in the sunlight, some only taught me their name. I gathered the broken and gilded what still had a pulse underneath, not hiding the cracks in the vessel, just letting the gold find the seams. [Pre-Chorus 2] Nothing was wasted, nothing erased, even the ruin has taken its place. [Chorus] Now comes the harvest, now comes the flame, I breathe in the chaos, I call it by name. Turning shadow to form, memory to art, The Alchemist’s Harvest — the work of my heart. [Bridge (instruments stripped)] I thought the harvest was what I could gather. I know better now. The harvest is what remained true. What survived the weather. What kept growing without witness. What I carried home. [Full Chorus] I don't gild it to hide what happened. I gild it so the light can find it. [Final Chorus] Now comes the harvest, now comes the flame, I carry the record, I carry my name. Turning shadow to form, memory to gold, The Alchemist’s Harvest — the story I hold. Now comes the harvest, let everything shine, the broken, the beautiful, all of it mine. Nothing discarded, no season apart— The Alchemist’s Harvest, the work of my heart. [Outro Spoken Word Quietly] Let the light find it.