The Couture of Consequences

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

I wore tomorrow yesterday

in a dress the future forgot to invent

stitched from the beautiful inaccuracies

of everything I never meant

Pre-Chorus

A butterfly unbuttoned silence

on the staircase of my spine

and somewhere in another century

a stranger's heartbeat answered mine

Chorus

I wore a thousand tiny consequences

like diamonds grieving in the rain

each one a universe unfolding

each one a differently dressed pain

Post-Chorus

(Unfolding)

(Unfolding)

Differently dressed pain

Verse 2

My sleeves were architectural apologies

my collar a cathedral of regret

my waist the narrow mathematics

of two people who had never met

Pre-Chorus

And if a wing can change the weather

can one lost thread rearrange the stars

can beauty travel backwards

through the corridors of who we are

Chorus

I wore a thousand tiny consequences

like diamonds grieving in the rain

each one a universe unfolding

each one a differently dressed pain

Post-Chorus

(Unfolding)

(Unfolding)

Differently dressed pain

Bridge

Oh what an exquisite contradiction

to be the cause and still remain

the accidental little miracle

that never happens twice again

Breakdown

My velvet carried ancient thunder

my pearls remembered unborn seas

every pleat concealed a kingdom

brought to ruin by a breeze

Chorus

I did not dress to be remembered

I dressed to interrupt the night

to make the darkness reconsider

its hereditary claim on light

Outro

So let the butterflies undo me

let the heavens lose their symmetry

I am not the woman in the mirror

I am the reason

the mirror

dreamed of me

And somewhere

in the smallest fold of silence

a butterfly

is changing

everything