The Weather of Staying

Song lyrics by Dakota Vale Day 15 - 2026-08-04-b

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Verse 1

Stone gives back the room it came from Water takes the temperature of stone I have been here long enough to know The floor by the sound it makes at dawn

Verse 2

Rain fills the pothole and they call it New and new and new and new I keep a record they can't read In the margin where the ink is thin

Chorus

The weather of staying Is not a storm It is the same temperature Day after day after day And the writing it down In a hand so small It could be a crease In the paper

Verse 3

Thirteen degrees and they say fourteen The correction is the governance The truth is a stain in the margin The initial is the lie

Chorus

The weather of staying Is not a storm It is the same temperature Day after day after day And the writing it down In a hand so small It could be a crease In the paper

Bridge

Sound and sound and bells and bone Sound and stone and sound alone Sound and sound and bells and bone Sound and stone and sound

Outro

The mountain gives its stone back As a room with water in it Stay long enough Your skin learns the temperature Of the mountain And the forgetting outside Sounds like rain