Trial Without Error

Verse 1

Wood floors

The courtroom was already standing

Before the first breath cleared the throat

Cold robes

Arranged

The verdict folded

Sentence buried in the heavy coat

Verse 2

Signals

Comfortable inside the panic

Sweetness of a managed dream

Limp hands

Feeding

All the sleeping faces

Keeping all the edges clean

Pre-Chorus

Somewhere in the architecture

Of everything that felt like choice

A corridor without an exit

A law that never needed voice

Chorus

Trial without error

The error was never yours to make

Trial without error

Judged for the cage you helped create

Stand in the light they built to blind you

Speak to the court that wrote your lines

Trial without error

Guilty of opening your eyes

Verse 3

Masses

Chewing on the light they're given

Grateful for the color of the cage

Stage hands

Smoothing

Every single corner

Watching from the center of the stage

Pre-Chorus

They are patient like erosion

They don't conspire they simply know

What feeds the eye what dulls the question

Which direction lets the river flow

Chorus

Trial without error

The error was never yours to make

Trial without error

Judged for the cage you helped create

Stand in the light they built to blind you

Speak to the court that wrote your lines

Trial without error

Guilty of opening your eyes

Bridge

Both sides of the bench

Both sides of the blade

The prosecutor wears the same face

As the one who was afraid

Complicit in the comfort

Fluent in the lie

Now standing in the wreckage

Of a perfectly constructed sky

The trial doesn't need a verdict

The trial is the point

Keep the accused examining the charges

While the walls quietly anoint

Instrumental

Outro

Awake inside the verdict

Awake inside the room

The bliss was just the darkness

Wearing something like the moon

No appeal

No recess

No error left to find

The trial was always

The design

The design

The design