Roots in the Ribs

Start

Bone-white keys beneath trembling hands

Winter breath sleeping on my tongue

Dust settles in soft command

Shadow-stitched words unsung

Glass harp sighs in the hollowed chest

Moon slivers paint your vacant chair

Time turns to salt with each unrest

Threadbare hope caught in the air

Pre-Chorus

Hands carved from brittle longing

Fingertips swept by rust and snow

Inside me your syllables sprawling

Blooming in places you’ll never know[Chorus]

My ribs crack like dry branches

Still your name grows through the seams

Roots curling in the hollow spaces

Haunted by all the quiet dreams

Verse 2

Steel wires hum underneath my skin

I shatter in the echoes you leave

Every splinter a memory, cold and thin

Still I hold onto what I grieve

Pre-Chorus

Hands carved from brittle longing

Fingertips swept by rust and snow

Inside me your syllables sprawling

Blooming in places you’ll never know

Chorus

My ribs crack like dry branches

Still your name grows through the seams

Roots curling in the hollow spaces

Haunted by all the quiet dreams[Chorus]

My ribs crack like dry branches

Still your name grows through the seams

Roots curling in the hollow spaces

Haunted by all the quiet dreams