Lyric

Saw the skin shift at the corner store

Green to gold, a pattern I'd never seen before

She moved like water finding its own way

No legs, no rush—just this smooth display

I'm standing still, watching how the body bends

How the spine becomes the rhythm, where the motion ends

Scale and breath, coil and release

Something moves inside the piece

Scale and breath, can't look away

Something moves and won't stay

Asked her where she's headed, she just smiled

Said the tunnel under the station's been her style

Cold tiles, dark water, no one asking questions

She knows every turn, every underground lesson

Told me scales don't lie—they show you everything

Where you're weak, where you're strong, how the body learns to sing

In the basement light, she coils once

Then she's gone

Scale and breath, gone before the dawn

Scale and breath, and the fear stays on