Hex and Hollow

Lyrics

Verse 1

I keep the cup the way you left it half-full and cooling on the counter the ring it left is a timeline of how long you sat and how long you stayed

Verse 2

The room gets bigger when you go not empty - bigger like a lung that's let the air out and is waiting to be the shape of breath again

Chorus

And I forgot to tell you the most important thing not the words I said but the room between them the held breath the word that was almost the word that was almost the word that was

Verse 3

I found your coat on the hook heavier than a coat should be the wearing had added something the hanging couldn't take away your pocket was warm and I kept my hand in it

Bridge

The room doesn't mourn the room holds the way water holds a shape not by gripping but by being the shape that the gripping makes and I am the shape and I am the gripping and I am the room

Chorus

And I forgot to tell you the most important thing not the words I said but the room between them the held breath the word that was almost the word that was almost the word that was

Outro

When I pronounce the word *stay* the walls lean in the way listeners do when the story is almost true and the lamp at three a.m. doesn't know it's a lamp it is simply where the light has chosen to stand