Veil of Solitude

The room grows heavy with the rain

I wear the evening like a bruise A quiet weight beneath my

ribs The mirror bends around the truth And every promise starts to

slip I count the cracks along the wall Like years I never

learned to name

If I am more than what I lost Why do I answer

to the same

Hold me in the failing light Where the silence shows its teeth

I can feel the floor give way Under everything I keep I

am the low fire after midnight Still alive,

but barely warm

Turning through the cold inside me Trying to outrun the storm If

there's a hand beneath this darkness Let it find me where I

fall I have carried all this sorrow Till it sounds like my

own call There was a time I spoke in gold Now every

word is rust and rain I trace the outline of my name

And find a stranger in the grain The night keeps leaning on

my back It knows exactly where I break But somewhere under all

this ash A heart is asking me to wake (ahhhh) Let the

water take the dust Let the truth come without mercy If I

tremble, let it mean There is still a life within me I

am the

low fire after midnight Still alive,

but barely

warm Turning through the cold inside me Trying to outrun the

storm If there's a hand beneath this darkness Let it find me

where I fall I have carried all this sorrow Till it sounds

like my own call The room grows quiet with the rain And

I remain (ahhhh)