The maps on the table are drawn in lead

V8
Eclectic
04:08
2026-02-24
2
house, emotive, piano, 4/4, female
1
[Intro]
0:00
[Verse]
0:14
The maps on the table are drawn in lead
0:14
Steel lines separating where the wild birds tread
0:18
You stand on the shoreline where the salt air bites
0:21
I am a shadow in the valley of electric lights
0:25
The distance is a cold wire stretched across the dark
0:29
A hollow space waiting for a long-lost spark
0:33
I reach for the handle but the door is made of slate
0:37
We are the punchline in a comedy of fate
0:41
[Verse]
0:51
Your letters are smoke rings in a gale-force wind
0:51
Tracing the outline of the places we have sinned
0:55
The clock on the mantle has forgotten how to chime
0:58
We are the stowaways in the pockets of time
1:03
You speak of a garden where the winter never goes
1:07
I count the thorns on a synthetic rose
1:11
The river is rising but the bridge is a ghost
1:14
To the ghosts of the living who suffer the most
1:18
[Chorus]
1:21
But the gravity is pulling from a different sun
1:21
The race is decided before it has begun
1:25
It is the heavy chain of a silent prayer
1:29
A ladder of water leading nowhere
1:33
The logic of the mountain and the mercy of the sea
1:36
Will never permit you to be standing next to me
1:40
It is written in the rust and the ancient clay
1:44
That we were meant to be a world away
1:48
[Bridge]
2:07
The judge is asleep with a pen in his hand
2:07
Writing our names in the shifting sand
2:11
There is no pardon for the crime of the heart
2:14
When the finish line is where the runners start
2:18
Break
2:22
the glass and the reflection stays
2:22
Lost in the thick of a velvet haze
2:25
[Verse]
2:35
I saw your reflection in a stranger’s glass
2:35
Watching the seasons and the centuries pass
2:39
The train is a phantom on a rusted track
2:43
Carrying the dreams that we can’t take back
2:46
The sky is a ceiling painted heavy and gray
2:51
Keeping the heat of the morning away
2:55
I’d sell my soul for a bucket of rain
2:59
To wash out the ink and the mark of the stain
3:03
[Verse]
3:06
So build up the walls and the towers of stone
3:06
The kingdom is empty and I’m on the throne
3:10
The wind is a beggar with nothing to sell
3:14
Ringing the hammer on a cracked silver bell
3:18
You are the North Star and I am the deep
3:21
The secret that both of us promised to keep
3:25
The anchor is heavy and the rope is torn
3:28
To the coldest day that was ever born
3:32
[Pre-Chorus]
3:36
The horizon is a razor cutting through the blue
3:36
Dividing the false from the bitter and true
3:40
We are the captives of a different law
3:43
Caught in the grip of a frozen claw
3:48
[Chorus]
3:51
But the gravity is pulling from a different sun
3:51
The race is decided before it has begun
3:55
It is the heavy chain of a silent prayer
3:58
A ladder of water leading nowhere
4:02
The logic of the mountain and the mercy of the sea
4:05
Will never permit you to be standing next to me
4:05
It is written in the rust and the ancient clay
4:06
That we were meant to be a world away
4:06