Quiet

Intro

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Mm-hmm

Oh-oh

Verse 1

Down the stairwell where the light forgets my name

Folded quiet in the marrow of the hour

I count the ceiling cracks like broken Morse

Each one a door I never learned to open

Pre-Chorus

And I hold the dark like a marble in my palm

Cold and round and mine alone

Marble in my palm

Chorus

Where the mind goes quiet

That's where I go

Where the mind goes quiet

I pack my hollow and I row

Quiet

Quiet

Verse 2

Some rooms only open from inside

The handle warm from hands I haven't met

A phlox bloom presses through the plaster

Patient as a mother at a window

Pre-Chorus

And I hold the dark like a marble in my palm

Cold and round and mine alone

Marble in my palm

Chorus

Where the mind goes quiet

That's where I go

Where the mind goes quiet

I pack my hollow and I row

Quiet

Quiet

Bridge

Speak to me in frequencies

In unmarked hours and unspooled keys

Tell me every shadow has a seam

And every seam a little light between

Breakdown

Mm-hmm

Oh-oh

Hold the dark

Hold the dark

Chorus

Where the mind goes quiet

That's where I go

Where the mind goes quiet

I pack my hollow and I row

Verse 3

An alle clock that chimes in crooked thirds

A staircase built for someone else's stride

I keep a lantern made of spider's silk

And walk the hall where winter keeps a tide

Pre-Chorus

And I hold the dark like a marble in my palm

Cold and round and mine alone

Marble in my palm

Chorus

Where the mind goes quiet

That's where I go

Where the mind goes quiet

I pack my hollow and I row

Quiet

Quiet

Spoken Interlude

There is a room beneath the room you sleep in

The walls are made of weather that never breaks

I left a letter there addressed to no one

It says the deepest wells forgive the ache

(The deepest wells)

(The deepest wells forgive the ache)

Verse 4

I learned to braid the silence into rope

To tie the hours to a whistling buoy

The tide that takes your name and pays it slow

Returns it smaller, softer, almost joy

Pre-Chorus

And I hold the dark like a marble in my palm

Cold and round and mine alone

Marble in my palm

Chorus

Where the mind goes quiet

That's where I go

Where the mind goes quiet

I pack my hollow and I row

Quiet

Quiet

Hook

Row

Row the hollow

Row

Hollow

Breakdown

Mm

Mm-hmm

Oh-oh

Mm

Hold the dark

Hold the dark

Verse 5

The attic keeps a gramophone of rain

Its needle dull from playing grief on loop

But underneath the static there is grain

A hum that never learned to leave the root

Pre-Chorus

And I hold the dark like a marble in my palm

Cold and round and mine alone

Marble in my palm

Chorus

Where the mind goes quiet

That's where I go

Where the mind goes quiet

I pack my hollow and I row

Quiet

Quiet

Outro

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Mm-hmm

Hollow

Hollow

Oh

Mm

Quiet