Verse 1

Sweetness dumb, a glance for some,

Speaks common words we never choose,

Lean to the night where shadows hum,

Guitar bask, tender truth and blues.

Soft in the rhyme, we learn to stay,

While daylight reasons fall apart,

Your beauty itself wants proving,

But silence always knew your heart.

Pre-Chorus

An absent face that fixed you here,

Like photographs that never fade,

I reach for what I still hold dear,

In all the vows we never made.

Chorus

Let’s contend no more of cloudless climes,

No borrowed dreams or starry skies,

Dwelling places built of time,

Not alibis we memorize.

I hear my mistress coming close,

Footsteps keeping broken time,

When love with unconfined wings knows

No need to beg, no need to shine.

Verse 2

Sweetness dumb, but saying all,

A glance for some can start a flame,

Speaks common words against the wall,

But none of them can say your name.

Lean to the night, let daylight go,

Where every fear is laid to rest,

Guitar bask, the embers glow,

We play the truth and test the rest.

Pre-Chorus 2

Your beauty itself wants proving still,

In rooms that measure worth by noise,

But love was never built to kneel

Before a crowd of borrowed joys.

Chorus

Let’s contend no more of cloudless climes,

No painted moons or perfect lies,

Starry skies are dwelling places

For the faithful and the quiet-eyed.

I hear my mistress coming near,

Calling softly through the din,

When love with unconfined wings appears,

It never asks permission in.

Bridge

Parasites forever fawning,

Feeding on a borrowed light,

They circle love from dusk to morning,

Mistaking hunger for a right.

But a rare and radiant metal forms

In fire, in pressure, in the fall,

Not in applause or waiting arms,

But where you gave yourself your all.

Final Chorus

Let’s contend no more of cloudless climes,

No heaven sold in easy lines,

Dwelling places, scars and signs,

The holy and the human kind.

I hear my mistress coming home,

Through every doubt I ever knew,

When love with unconfined wings roams,

It carries me—back into you.Sweetness dumb, a glance for some,

Lean to the night till morning comes,

Guitar bask, soft in the rhyme,

A rare and radiant metal—time.