Story: The Library With No Exit
Verse 1
One more book on the table
one more teacher in the night
one more shining little sentence
saying this could make it right
one more metaphor for silence
one more map of letting go
one more story from the mountain
one more thing I need to know
Chorus
But the door was not in knowing
not in words that looked so wise
it was aching in the body
underneath the wanting eyes
one more book could not release me
from the place I would not feel
there was nothing left to study
but the contraction that was real
Verse 2
Every silence turned to hunger
every pause became a plan
read another, watch another
be a better seeking man
but the throat was softly burning
and the chest began to say
you don’t need another answer
you have turned from me all day
Bridge
No need to burn the library
no need to curse the page
but the book cannot replace
the trembling in the cage
let the words become a doorway
let the doorway disappear
what you tried to understand
has always waited here
Final Chorus
No more book for this moment
no more ladder, no more scheme
just the body, just the silence
just the ending of the dream
and the thing I thought was missing
did not come from far away
it was hidden in the feeling
I kept thinking into clay
