Sing You Down Into The Deep

Intro

Listen — (listen)

Listen — (listen)

Low like a bell, low like a vow (ha)

Verse

Iron rain on a rooftop of bone

I carry your name like a coal in my palm

There’s a cavern inside where the light forgot how to live

I walk it slowly, step by step, feeling edges of what I give

The air tastes like blame and the scent of old letters

I count the hours like teeth, every one a debtor

You left a map drawn in ash and thin paper cuts

I read it by moonlight that hangs like a coin of lead

Pre-chorus

I learned to speak in low tones, to meet the dark eye to eye (oh)

To drag the truth out of the gutter where it tried to die (yeah)

I made a vow in that silence, a heavy, honest vow (oh-oh)

If sorrow is a blade, I sharpen it and bow

Chorus

I will sing you down into the deep — (deep, deep)

I will hold the tremor, I will hold the heat — (hold it, hold it)

I will be the voice that won't let go — (won't let go)

I will be the place where broken things learn to stay whole

I will sing you down into the deep — (deep, deep)

I will hold the tremor, I will hold the heat — (hold it, hold it)

I will be the voice that won't let go — (won't let go)

I will be the place where broken things learn to stay whole

Verse

Beneath my ribs the old drum is slow and certain

It remembers how to count each fall, each unspooling curtain

I carry fingerprints of all the nights I almost left

They press like prayers on my skin, they teach me what I kept

There’s a river of glass that runs under my tongue

I talk to it softly, it answers in song (ah-ah)

You think darkness is empty — you mistake the space

There’s a choir in the ruin, there’s a mercy in the trace

Pre-chorus

I learned to bend without breaking, to breathe around the flame (yeah)

To say the names that hurt me and not be ashamed (oh)

I made a promise with the broken, I held their small warm hands (ha)

If the world will crack us open, we’ll sing from the lands

Chorus

I will sing you down into the deep — (deep, deep)

I will hold the tremor, I will hold the heat — (hold it, hold it)

I will be the voice that won't let go — (won't let go)

I will be the place where broken things learn to stay whole

I will sing you down into the deep — (deep, deep)

I will hold the tremor, I will hold the heat — (hold it, hold it)

I will be the voice that won't let go — (won't let go)

I will be the place where broken things learn to stay whole

Bridge

Come closer — (come closer)

Let the dark press its cool against your bones (ah)

There is a language there without shame, without moans

Take off the armor of smiling, let the honest hurt come through

I’ll be the heavy hand that steadies you

(steady, steady) — breathe — (breathe)

Say the hard things — say the names — (say the names)

I will answer every call that sounds like tears and truth

Chorus

I will sing you down into the deep — (deep, deep)

I will hold the tremor, I will hold the he