Grain By Grain

from Return Forever by The Fourth Wall

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lyrics

Rise and fall
Water finds its level every time
It’s rising up
To swallow you in rivers
I see a shape
Bursting in gradations at the lines
I need the joy
To keep it all together

There’s a tide that carries away
Grain by grain
What exposed the fracture plane
To the tenderest rain
Or compressed the hour into
A crystalline sense that cuts its way to you

On and on
I turn into the matter you displace
So I need your love
To stay here for a time
It cuts a shape
In canyons stretched across the empty space
You hold a place
In a roar of afterglow

There’s a tide that carries away
Grain by grain
The fibers that light the brain
In an echoing pain
What compressed the hour into
A crystalline sense that cuts its way to you

A tear caught the light from a moonbeam
Crushed colors into a glance
I wonder what you were remembering
What turned ringing bells into hands
Marking out a space I can’t enter
A thought I must not understand

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from Return Forever, released March 15, 2024

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