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[Intro] [Verse] The glue pot simmers low Against the winter snow Up on the second floor Behind the heavy door The spinet plays a ghost-like tune Beneath a pale and silver moon I hold the spine so tight In the fading amber light [Pre-Chorus] A pencil sketch upon the page A voice from a distant age It whispers through the dust In a language I can trust [Chorus] Oh, stranger from the past The ink was meant to last Seventy years between us now I make a silent vow To keep your secrets safe and sound In every word that I have found A ghost in the marginalia In this paper-bound regalia [Hook] Drifting through the white In the middle of the night Drifting through the white In the middle of the night [Verse] December nineteen-fifty-four A name I haven't seen before You loved the way the starlight fell Inside this paper-woven shell The bass clarinet hums a line Where your spirit meets with mine I trace the curve of every letter Knowing you a little better [Chorus] Oh, stranger from the past The ink was meant to last Seventy years between us now I make a silent vow To keep your secrets safe and sound In every word that I have found A ghost in the marginalia In this paper-bound regalia [Bridge] Linen thread and bone Working all alone The alto flute begins to sigh Underneath the charcoal sky A lighthouse for a lonely mind The kind of peace I hope to find Binding up the broken seams Of all your long-forgotten dreams [Verse] You quoted Woolf about the room Within this quiet, dusty gloom "A space of one's own," you wrote In a tiny, penciled note The harp strings shiver in the cold As the story starts to unfold We are two shadows in the glass Watching all the decades pass [Chorus] Oh, stranger from the past The ink was meant to last Seventy years between us now I make a silent vow To keep your secrets safe and sound In every word that I have found A ghost in the marginalia In this paper-bound regalia [Outro]
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