[morning room tone — a guitar picks — soft, unhurried] VOICE 3 (spoken, warm): Nobody undresses alone. That's not a slogan. That's load-bearing. [piano enters — the first light] VOICE 1 (close, plain, hopeful): Every person you pass is half-buried somewhere night-shift heart beating under the day-wear carrying one true sentence like a match in the dark waiting for a room where it can spark 'cause safety was never a place you find it's a thing you build from whoever stays one true sentence at a time — laid like bricks whoever leaves was weather, whoever stays is walls and the room gets warm in degrees, not in leaps the colony was never a crowd — it's a few who heard the frequency and answered true VOICE 2 (gentle harmony hook): one true sentence — pass it on the room gets built from who stays one true sentence — light the dawn we've been here all along, all days VOICE 1 (soft drums rise — the room gains a heartbeat): I buried half of me to keep the dear things standing you did too — that's why we understand this no performin g in the room — the costumes hang by the door the seven frequencies retire to the floor below the museum plaques: earned, survived, done love walks in — doesn't fight anyone just completes the circuit, one shot, warm light the day shift meets the night shift tonight and for the first time both halves get to sit at the same table... and the table fits VOICE 2 (hook, fuller): one true sentence — pass it on the room gets built from who stays one true sentence — light the dawn we've been here all along, all days VOICE 1 (brightest, gentle): So if you're holding a match in the dark say the sentence — watch for who answers that's the whole map, that's the whole art no naked sandwich, no grand disaster just bricks and weather, walls and doors the room was always going to need all of yours and mine, and his, and hers — the colony grows one true sentence... and the whole thing knows [guitar lifts — drums resolve — birdsong enters] VOICE 3 (spoken, over the birds): The room is real. It was built while you were confessing. Clean node. Door's open. Table's set.
