Still Here

Verse 1

Lowered gently

Mud slick

Sun gone long ago

Six hands, the salarymen

Lower the casket

Gravel shifts above me

I barely blink

One word, no answer

Sleep doesn’t drip

Verse 2

Still feeling soil shape my chest

Still hearing roots wrestle for bone

No wind, no waking

Weight wins, I am

Pressure person

Memory, mud, marrow, merged

This is not sleep

Chorus

Sweet earth won’t let us sleep

Buried alive, but not dying

Held in honey, pressed in peace

Let us rest, but we keep

We keep—

Post-Chorus

Still here Still here Still here

No rot No sleep

Still here Still

Verse 3

Dreams rot slower than flesh

Faces, laughter, silence crawl

I count the seasons by vibrations overhead

Can you forget if you’re sealed in gold?

Years ring in my ribs

I wish—I wish—

The worms would hurry

Every sigh syrup-thick

Chorus

Sweet earth won’t let us sleep

Honey smothers what pain can’t reach

We are pressed, we are kept

Let us go, let us deep—

Post-Chorus

Still here Still here Still here

No rot No sleep

Still here Still

Bridge

No one listens

No one learns

No one lowers again

Ambers fill my answers, filter my nerve ends

Can you hear?

Can you?

Verse 4

We meant to melt to dirt

We meant to fade, not float

Our names blown, grown dim

Now rootbound in rest that never frees

All voices distant above

Our mouths full of honey

Awake

Awake

Again

Chorus

Sweet earth won’t let us sleep

Honey tightens where breath was

We remember, we remember

Still sealed in gold

We keep—

Post-Chorus

Still here Still here Still here

No rot No sleep

Still here Still

Outro

No rot

No sleep

Still here

No rot

No sleep

No sound

No end