Lyrics
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**(Verse I)**
*(Male Voice - Sparse guitar accompaniment)*
I have built a house of cedar and lime
On the same plot of dirt where my father spent time
There are floorboards that groan with a secret they keep
Of a cellar where legacies stubbornly sleep
I walk through the parlor, I polish the brass
But the ghost of the garden is seen through the glass;
For every new joist that I hammer in place
The earth undernеath claims a sliver of space
**(Versе II)**
*(Female Voice - Entering in harmony, then leading; cello enters)*
Below the foundation, the river-bed sings
Of the salt in the marrow and the weight of old things
I am the silt, and the shale, and the loam
The recursive orbit that calls a man home
You call it a dwelling, a roof, and a door
But I am the echo of the forest’s old floor;
A multi-level haunting, a vertical climb
From the seed in the mud to the ticking of time
**(Verse III)**
*(Dual Vocals - Intertwining melodies, increasing in intensity)*
(Male) I am the attic, the dust, and the light
(Female) I am the cavern, the velvet, the night
(Together) We are the layers of a book left unread
The living who walk on the ghosts of the dead
Oh, the architecture of a soul is a tiered, lonely hall
Where the higher we build, the harder we fall—
Back through the cedar, the lime, and the loam
To the bedrock, the bedrock, the bedrock of home
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