Ink and Silt

[Intro]
[Verse]
Cold water at my knees
Floating memories I can't seize
Cardboard pulp and gray mold
The secrets that she never told
I pull the plastic back
A life left off the track
[Pre-Chorus]
Her handwriting is a ghost
The thing I fear the most
The ink begins to bleed
The life she didn't lead
[Chorus]
Oh, the quiet way she broke
Swallowing the words she spoke
A legacy of hollow sound
Buried in the sodden ground
I won't be the one
To finish what she's begun
In the silence of the flood
I'm washing out the blood
[Verse]
Page forty-two is torn
A version of her never born
She stayed to keep the peace
Waiting for a sweet release
The rules were written clear
Live your life in constant fear
Hide the fire in your chest
Lay the wild heart to rest
[Pre-Chorus]
The water's rising high
Underneath a heavy sky
I see the pattern now
I'm breaking every vow
[Chorus]
Oh, the quiet way she broke
Swallowing the words she spoke
A legacy of hollow sound
Buried in the sodden ground
I won't be the one
To finish what she's begun
In the silence of the flood
I'm washing out the blood
[Bridge]
I find the match, I find the light
Ending this eternal night
I am not her echo now
I am the fire and the plow
Burn the paper, burn the ink
Standing on the jagged brink
I will not be small
I will not take the fall
[Hook]
Burn it all down
In this ghost town
Watch the smoke rise
From her tired eyes
[Chorus]
Oh, the quiet way she broke
Swallowing the words she spoke
A legacy of hollow sound
Buried in the sodden ground
I won't be the one
To finish what she's begun
In the silence of the flood
I'm burning out the blood
[Post-Chorus]
The ashes meet the rain
Washing away the stain
No more quiet rooms
No more dusty tombs
[Outro]