Velvet and Vellum

[Intro]
[Verse]
Locked inside the cedar chest
Dusty secrets laid to rest
Faded velvet, crimson stain
Tangled in an ancient pain
Leather bound in eighty-four
Lying on the attic floor
[Pre-Chorus]
Turn the page of poetry
Read the words you left for me
Shadows dance across the ink
Closer to the edge I blink
[Chorus]
Oh the ribbon holds the light
In the middle of the night
Jasmine falling on the stone
Where I waited all alone
Gilded gold and candlelight
Fading slowly from my sight
[Post-Chorus]
Still the garden whispers low
Where the bitter roses grow
Still the ribbon holds the light
Ghostly in the winter white
[Verse]
Solstice moon was rising high
Underneath a velvet sky
French horns call from far away
Things we never got to say
Ghostly steps upon the grass
Watching all the hours pass
[Pre-Chorus]
Silver strings begin to sigh
As the summer starts to die
Every rhyme is laced with blue
Searching for a trace of you
[Chorus]
Oh the ribbon holds the light
In the middle of the night
Jasmine falling on the stone
Where I waited all alone
Gilded gold and candlelight
Fading slowly from my sight
[Bridge]
Timpani rolls like thunder slow
Nowhere left for us to go
Celesta rings a silver bell
Stories that we’ll never tell
A promise kept in silk and thread
Words that stay forever unsaid
[Verse]
Chandelier with crystal tears
Echoing across the years
Your name hidden in the verse
Like a blessing or a curse
Pin it back into my hair
Though you are no longer there
[Chorus]
Oh the ribbon holds the light
In the middle of the night
Jasmine falling on the stone
Where I waited all alone
Gilded gold and candlelight
Fading slowly from my sight
[Post-Chorus]
Still the garden whispers low
Where the bitter roses grow
Still the ribbon holds the light
Ghostly in the winter white
[Outro]