[Verse 1] I found your voice beneath the stone ([Whispered female vocals] please stay) Pressed in memories I’d outgrown You were laughter in the limestone cracks ([Whispered female vocals] don't go away) A fossil smile I can't give back [Chorus] We’re written in the layers Strata stacked and worn Dust of what we used to be Where love was laid and torn You’re buried deep, still part of me In sediment and sighs A hundred versions underfoot I never said goodbye [Verse 2] I mapped our fall like fault lines split ([Whispered female vocals] don't go away) Preserved in ash where memories sit Some days I dig, some days I run ([Whispered female vocals] please stay) Some days I swear the diggin’s done [Chorus] We’re written in the layers Strata stacked and worn Dust of what we used to be Where love was laid and torn You’re buried deep, still part of me Pressed between the lies A hundred echoes in the shale I never said goodbye [Bridge – spoken or whispered harmonies underneath] Fragment of a letter ([Whispered female vocals] please stay) One photograph, torn Carbon-dated heartache ([Whispered female vocals] I love you) From the year we were reborn [Final Chorus – big build, harmonies rise] We’re written in the layers Not all things break with time Some ghosts stay soft, some bones survive And some were never mine You’re buried deep, but not erased Still showing through the sky I walk above the love we made I never said goodbye
