Dancing in the Heartbreak

Song about looking back and growing older.

[Intro]

[Verse]
The dust settles slow on the heavy velvet folds
The sun is a ghost in this room of fading golds
I watch the way the shadows crawl across the floor
Behind the heavy wood of a locked and silent door
The statues stand in silence with eyes of polished stone
Content to live their centuries entirely alone

[Verse]
I trace the intricate patterns carved into your chair
A heavy scent of incense hanging in the frozen air
Your presence is a monument built within these walls
An echo of greatness that never fades or falls
I am a pilgrim kneeling where the ceiling meets the sky
Waiting for a glimpse of something pure before I die

[Chorus]
You are the mountain peak untouched by any hand
The architect of everything within this hollow land
My devotion is a fire that consumes the very dark
A sacrificial flame ignited by a holy spark
Immense and terrifying in your quiet majesty
The only truth that offers any dignity to me

[Bridge]
The clock is ticking backwards in this cathedral of the soul
Your silence is the medicine that makes my spirit whole
No windows open outward to the common city street
Only the heavy carpets beneath my weary feet
To love you is to vanish in a storm of brilliant white
A long and deep surrender to the coming of the night

[Verse]
The books upon the shelves contain the secrets of your grace
I see a thousand wonders in the lines upon your face
This chamber is a kingdom where the worldly noise retreats
Far from the bitter winter and the crowded muddy streets
You sit upon your throne of silk and weathered iron gray
Commanding every heartbeat and the words I cannot say

[Verse]
The tapestries are trembling as the evening settles in
The boundary is thinning between my spirit and my skin
I do not seek the sunlight or the fields of open green
I only want to witness what the narrow eye has seen
To climb the jagged ladder to the summit of your thought
And find the ancient wisdom that the centuries have taught

[Chorus]
You are the mountain peak untouched by any hand
The architect of everything within this hollow land
My devotion is a fire that consumes the very dark
A sacrificial flame ignited by a holy spark
Immense and terrifying in your quiet majesty
The only truth that offers any dignity to me

[Outro]