Architecture of Silence

Verse 1

Frozen

Gates hanging heavy

Statues of salt guard the perimeter

Winter wool pulls tight

I wait

Near the weathered cross

Waiting for a ghost

With a microchip hidden in his palm

Instrumental

Verse 2

Glitch

A frame flickers

Grey silhouette against the jagged stone

No words

Heavy breathing

Heavy breathing

He speaks in frequencies I cannot hear

Ancient codes

Modern betrayals

The dead are the only ones

Who never change their stories

Chorus

An empty exchange

An empty exchange

Cold glass and paper

Nothing to hold

An empty exchange

An empty exchange

Post-Chorus

Oh oh oh

Oh oh oh

Verse 3

Incense

Thin white line

Signal to watchers in the dark trees

We summon

Names of the fallen

To find the location of the safe house

Spirits offer coordinates

To a past that no longer exists

We are agents

Conspiring with the silent earth

Instrumental

Verse 4

Flash

Sudden camera lens

Or just the moon hitting the marble

He vanishes

Into the architecture

Leaving a cold heavy silence

This means nothing to the living

This means nothing to the dead

Just an echo

In the machinery

Of a city that never remembers

Chorus

An empty exchange

An empty exchange

Cold glass and paper

Nothing to hold

An empty exchange

An empty exchange

Post-Chorus

Oh oh oh

Oh oh oh

Bridge

Under the wire

Into the grey

Left with the secret

Thrown away

Under the wire

Into the grey

Left with the secret

Thrown away

Chorus

An empty exchange

An empty exchange

Cold glass and paper

Nothing to hold

An empty exchange

An empty exchange

Outro

Never remembers

Never remembers

Never remembers

An empty exchange