Stone Veins
Lowstate
There's a photograph I found
Buried deep between old pages
Someone standing in the sunlight
Before the weight of passing ages
Eyes that didn't hesitate
Hands that never learned to stay
Looking at that distant version
Feels like watching it decay
Somewhere in the turning seasons
Something slowly slipped away
Stone veins running through me now
Where the fire used to live
Every year the current weakens
Taking more than I can give
Names and places blur together
Stories drift without a sound
Every road that once felt open
Narrows slowly to the ground
People say that time will shape you
Carve the edges of your bones
But they never mention how it
Leaves you standing there alone
I can trace the fading outline
Of the person I once knew
Stone veins running through me now
Where the fire used to live
Every year the current weakens
Taking more than I can give
If the change was slow and silent
Maybe that's why I missed the day
Stone veins running through me now
Where the fire used to live
Every year the current weakens
Taking more than I can give
And I barely feel it fade