Lyric

Something in me lowers

And no one turns around

The room keeps moving over me

Without a single sound

I hold the cup a little longer

I miss my name the first time through

The screen lights up against my fingers

But nothing in me reaches to

My answer comes back smaller

My smile arrives too late

I watch the morning open

And cannot meet its weight

The light still finds the table

The chair still knows my shape

But I am less inside it

Than I was yesterday

Less in my hands

Less in my mouth

Less of the light

Making it out

Oxygen falls quietly

No alarm, no break, no sound

No one hears the gauge go down

No one sees me thinning out

I am not empty, only lower

Not gone, but hard to find

Even the love inside me

Moves slower through the line

You say my name so gently

I know that I should turn

But something in my chest is late

And slow enough to burn

I used to answer quicker

I used to want more light

Now every tender question

Takes me half the night

I do not mean to leave you

I do not mean to fade

I only feel the air run thin

In places I had stayed

The room keeps going without me

The clock keeps clean and bright

No one sees the pressure drop

Behind my quiet eyes

Less in the room

Less in the glass

Less in the pulse

Trying to last

Oxygen falls quietly

No alarm, no break, no sound

No one hears the gauge go down

No one sees me thinning out

I am not empty, only lower

Not lost, but out of view

Even the truth inside me

Needs longer to come through

Not gone

Not free

Not full

Not me

Not loud

Not done

Not whole

Not numb

There is a breath beneath the breath

I have not spent it all

It waits below the heavy blue

Too quiet yet to call

I place my hand against my ribs

To learn what still remains

A little air, a little ache

A body under strain

Oxygen falls quietly

But something answers back

A smaller flame under the water

A pulse beneath the black

I am not empty, only lower

Not gone, not lost, not through

I hear the last air inside me

Trying to become new

The room keeps moving over me

The light keeps coming down

I do not rise completely

But I do not go without

Somewhere under all this pressure

A breath refuses sleep

Soft enough for no one else

Deep enough for me