THE THIRD EYE ARCHIVES · SINGLE
I Wore Myself Solid
A self built for certainty begins to loosen, discovering that openness need not erase what remains.
- Artist
- JAX ALIE
- Scheduled release
- Label
- ABATTOIR STUDIO
- Series
- THE THIRD EYE ARCHIVES
Lyrics
Canonical song textI wore myself solid.Answer over answer.By the time the shaking reached my mouth,it had already learned one shape.
I kept my face where I had put it.Every mistake got a lid.When a feeling kicked the wall,I pressed my palm across the sound.When it came in two directions,I starved the louder one of air.I called the silence discipline.My pulse kept knocking from downstairs.
I wore myself solid,good behavior drying hard.Nothing in me had to spillif nothing in me learned to turn.I mistook the weight for proof:if I was heavy, I was here.
Then one certainty came loose.No thunder. No collapse.Just a seam I had forgottenand air touching skin again.I laughed where I meant to hide.Wanted back what I had buried.Tenderness came in with anger;neither one would leave.My mouth made room for both of them.I did not vanish in the change.
I wore myself solid.Now the cracks do not ask permission.A rough note lives beside a clear one.Both of them can use my name.I thought less would leave a hole.Instead the room inside me moves.
I leave one feeling with its mouth open.Another crosses through it sideways.My edge gives under its own weightand still comes back when I breathe.Anger lies down beside tenderness.Fear keeps shaking. I let it shake.No single note has to be my witness.My name survives the chord.
I wore myself solidbecause weight felt like evidence.Now I loosen one hard answer,then another.Something wider answers back.Not healed.Not finished.Still mine,and no longer one shape.
I leave the edge unfinished.It keeps meeting more of me.
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