[Intro: delicate piano, deep 808 pulse] [Verse 1: gentle melodic phrasing] I started with a thousand shapes inside the stone Every one a future I could call my own I carved away the pieces till a face appeared And found a life more beautiful than I had feared [Pre-Chorus: ascending harmonies] But scattered on the studio floor Are all the things I can't restore [Chorus: soaring bittersweet melody] Every masterpiece leaves something behind A thousand possibilities I'll never find I love the shape of everything I've made But mourn the marble that I chipped away [Layered falsetto, descending run] How can something look so right And cost a thousand other lives? [Break: melodic cowbell, syncopated bass] [Bridge: intimate, suspended chords] I couldn't make them all come true Each little cut was something new And even if I started clean I'd lose another world unseen [Outro: soft falsetto] The statue stands so beautifully But I still sweep the floor.
