[Intro — Immediate Bass Ostinato, Close Female Voice] There is a door behind the plaster Where the house forgets its name I hear the hinges counting slowly Every time I do the same [Verse 1 — Low, Intimate, Restrained] I learned the weather of the ceiling The small blue hour before the dawn I knew which boards would tell my footsteps And which ones let a stranger on I kept a glass beside the doorway To hear the smallest shift of air I called it being good at living I called it proof that I was safe in there I painted every warning silver I polished every rusted chain And when the walls grew close around me I blamed the shape of all the rooms again [Pre-Chorus — Accents Begin to Shift] No key in the bowl No shadow in the hall No hand on the other side No answer when I call Only a pulse beneath the floor Keeping time against the door [Chorus — Full, Clear Melodic Lift] A door that opens inward A room behind the room A thousand little things I buried Still learning how to move A door that opens inward No kingdom past the frame No light that makes me innocent No stranger left to blame If I step through, I take it with me Every mark I tried to hide The door was never built to save me It was built to turn inside [Instrumental Passage — Bass and Clean Guitar Trade Motifs; Cello Answers the Synth] [Verse 2 — More Motion, Quietly Urgent] I made a law of being useful I made a craft of being small I learned to leave before they asked me Then called the empty space my choice I stored apologies like matches Kept them dry and close at hand I could set fire to a silence Before it asked me where I stand And every time the world grew distant I pulled the curtains, checked the lock Then wondered why the room kept shrinking Why the hours gathered like a flock [Pre-Chorus 2 — Tighter Rhythm, Voice Rising] No key in the bowl No footsteps in the hall I know the shape of every fear I built them one and all Something turns beneath the floor Something answers from the door [Chorus — Stronger, Layered Octave Doubles] A door that opens inward A room behind the room A thousand little things I buried Still learning how to move A door that opens inward No kingdom past the frame No light that makes me innocent No stranger left to blame If I step through, I take it with me Every mark I tried to hide The door was never built to save me It was built to turn inside [Instrumental Break — Angular Guitar Solo Over Shifting Bass; Cello and Synth Exchange Short, Uneven Phrases] [Bridge — Half-Time Collapse, Nearly Bare Voice] What if the dark is only dark? What if it doesn't know my name? What if the lock was never holding Anything but all my shame? I was the child who learned the silence I was the guard who kept the key I was the room that held the winter I was the one who couldn't leave [Voice Alone — No Accompaniment] I don't forgive the years for passing I don't call the damage good I only stop mistaking hiding For the same thing as being understood [Full Silence] [Final Chorus — Luminous Soprano, Emotion Unforced] A door that opens inward The hinges start to sing No golden road, no grand unveiling Just air around everything A door that opens inward I see the seams at last The walls are made of all my choices But they don't have to last I take the fear, I take the memory I take the name I tried to shed I do not leave myself behind here I carry every room inside [Outro — Return to Low Register, Bass Pulse Only] No key in the bowl No shadow in the hall The door swings in I hear the hinges I hear them all [Hard Cut — Unresolved Bass Motif]
