Assembled self

Lyrics

[INTRO] Soft humming, a single breath of wind, the sound of a heart trying to start. [VERSE 1] There's an eye that never met this mouth, A hand that doesn't know which arm it's hanging from. A jacket buttoned up and waiting patiently, For a body that may never come. [CHORUS] I'm assembled, piece by piece, Borrowed parts that won't quite fit. Hush now, don't look at the seams, Don't ask which hand is lying, don't ask which hand is lying. [VERSE 2] Just a rumor of a face, Gathered up from somewhere else. Held together by the ink, the thin agreement That we're one and not ourselves. [CHORUS] I'm assembled, piece by piece, Borrowed parts that won't quite fit. Hush now, don't look at the seams, Don't ask which hand is lying, don't ask which hand is lying. [BRIDGE] But the pink runs past the lines I drew, Undisciplined, arriving uninvited too. Some parts chosen, some pressed into me, By hands I never got to see. [FINAL CHORUS] We're all assembled, piece by piece, Held together, just barely, just barely. This was never whole to start, It was only ever holding — Holding still, holding still, holding still. [OUTRO] Silence settles over the unfinished edges, and the song fades into a single, steady beat.