mother's love

Lyrics

(Verse 1)
The floorboards groan in a house made of glass
Where the hours are heavy and the centuries pass
A pale kind of silence, a curated chill
But in the center of the storm, the world stands still
I’m a glitch in the lineage, a curve in the line
A secret kept holy, a singular design
And while the others hunt in the emerald deep
I have a different kind of promise to keep.

(Chorus)
And it’s a heavy kind of anchor, a weight in the gold
A story that the gossip of the forest never told
Seventeen inches of a heartbeat, a river in the vein
A thunder in the quiet, a soft, steady rain
And when the world gets too loud, when the shadows start to spin
I let the warmth of the hearth let the sanctuary in.

(Verse 2)
Esme moves like a whisper, a ghost in the hall
She knows the geography, she knows how I fall
She doesn’t see a burden, she doesn’t see a flaw
Just the raw, honest truth of a natural law
She sinks into the softness, the orbit of the skin
Where the weight of my longing and her mercy begin
Watermelon echoes, a rhythmic, low hum
The beating of a heart, the strike of a drum.

(Bridge)
It’s not about the hunger, it’s not about the chase
It’s the grounding gravity of a mother’s embrace
Six inches of girth, a mountain to climb
A stillness that freezes the ticking of time
She sits on the summit, she settles the soul
The only piece of magic that makes the broken whole.

(Guitar Solo - Slow, distorted, and heavy)

(Chorus)
Yeah, it’s a heavy kind of anchor, a weight in the gold
A story that the gossip of the forest never told
Seventeen inches of a heartbeat, a river in the vein
A thunder in the quiet, a soft, steady rain.

(Outro)
Ground me in the velvet
Ground me in the heat
Where the strange and the sacred
And the heartbeat meet
Just a girl in a mansion
With a secret too wide to breathe
And a love that allows
The heavy heart to leave.

(Fade out on a single, deep bass note)