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Sweetness, Dumb

V7.6
Gary Robinson
05:12
2026-02-17
5
folk, melancholic, acoustic guitar, slow, baritone
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[Intro]
0:00
Verse 1
0:22
Sweetness dumb, a glance for some,
0:22
Speaks common words we never choose,
0:27
Lean to the night where shadows hum,
0:31
Guitar bask, tender truth and blues.
0:36
Soft in the rhyme, we learn to stay,
0:40
While daylight reasons fall apart,
0:45
Your beauty itself wants proving,
0:49
But silence always knew your heart.
0:54
Pre-Chorus
0:59
An absent face that fixed you here,
0:59
Like photographs that never fade,
1:03
I reach for what I still hold dear,
1:07
In all the vows we never made.
1:11
Chorus
1:14
Let’s contend no more of cloudless climes,
1:14
No borrowed dreams or starry skies,
1:19
Dwelling places built of time,
1:23
Not alibis we memorize.
1:28
I hear my mistress coming close,
1:33
Footsteps keeping broken time,
1:37
When love with unconfined wings knows
1:41
No need to beg, no need to shine.
1:45
Verse 2
1:57
Sweetness dumb, but saying all,
1:57
A glance for some can start a flame,
2:02
Speaks common words against the wall,
2:06
But none of them can say your name.
2:11
Lean to the night, let daylight go,
2:16
Where every fear is laid to rest,
2:20
Guitar bask, the embers glow,
2:25
We play the truth and test the rest.
2:29
Pre-Chorus 2
2:33
Your beauty itself wants proving still,
2:33
In rooms that measure worth by noise,
2:38
But love was never built to kneel
2:42
Before a crowd of borrowed joys.
2:46
Chorus
2:49
Let’s contend no more of cloudless climes,
2:49
No painted moons or perfect lies,
2:54
Starry skies are dwelling places
2:58
For the faithful and the quiet-eyed.
3:03
I hear my mistress coming near,
3:08
Calling softly through the din,
3:12
When love with unconfined wings appears,
3:16
It never asks permission in.
3:21
Bridge
3:29
Parasites forever fawning,
3:29
Feeding on a borrowed light,
3:32
They circle love from dusk to morning,
3:36
Mistaking hunger for a right.
3:41
But a rare and radiant metal forms
3:44
In fire, in pressure, in the fall,
3:48
Not in applause or waiting arms,
3:53
But where you gave yourself your all.
3:57
Final Chorus
4:01
Let’s contend no more of cloudless climes,
4:03
No heaven sold in easy lines,
4:08
Dwelling places, scars and signs,
4:13
The holy and the human kind.
4:17
I hear my mistress coming home,
4:21
Through every doubt I ever knew,
4:26
When love with unconfined wings roams,
4:31
It carries me—back into you.Sweetness dumb, a glance for some,
4:35
Lean to the night till morning comes,
4:49
Guitar bask, soft in the rhyme,
4:54
A rare and radiant metal—time.
4:58