Hours Fold Like Feathers

Verse 1

Mist rolls low across the silent street

Streetlamps hum their liquid gold

I trace a pattern only I can see

My breath a prayer on the cold

Pre-Chorus

And the city holds its tongue

Wrapped in shadow shawls

Waiting for the turning

Of the long night's walls

Chorus

Stay with me in the hush

Where the hours fold like feathers

Stay with me till the rush

Of the dawn we braid together

Verse 2

Dust motes dance a slow kabbalah

Air is warm and thick as wine

I count the steps between the lamps again

Like beads on a broken line

Pre-Chorus

And the night forgives us all

Every stray unholy sound

It swallows all our small confessions

Into its velvet ground

Chorus

Stay with me in the hush

Where the hours fold like feathers

Stay with me till the rush

Of the dawn we braid together

Bridge

Turn turn turn the low murmur

Turn the tide and turn the key

The deep harp of the rooftop rain

Sings its oldest song to me

Verse 3

Morning crawls on bruised grey knees

Through the blinds a slanting shine

Yet I linger in this amber hour

Where the slow hours call you mine

Pre-Chorus

Let the world begin again

Let it hurry past our door

We'll be tangled in the afterglow

A moment and no more

Chorus

Stay with me in the hush

Where the hours fold like feathers

Stay with me till the rush

Of the dawn we braid together

Outro

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The dawn we braid together

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The dawn we braid together