They gave him a room with a lock and steel

Gave me a road with no fixed wheels

He's got a bed four walls a name

I've got streetlights that forget the same

He counts his days in rising dust

I count my steps past places I trust

He's got a view that never shifts

I trade mine every time I  cross borders

Don't hang your hopes on some slow star

Don't carve my name where your heroes are

I'm no sparrow caught mid-flight

I break clean I hold no light

They said I wore the noise too thin

Took no trophies took no spin

But I just needed ground that stayed

Not walls that begged to be repaid

I don't trace maps  I crack the floor

I don't weave back  I mark the door

If it hollows I let it through

If it stumbles I don't undo

Don't hang your hopes on some slow star

Don't carve my name where your heroes are

I'm no sparrow caught mid-flight

I break clean I hold no light

They said I wore the noise too thin

Took no trophies took no spin

But I just needed ground that stayed

Not walls that begged to be repaid

I don't trace maps  I crack the floor

I don't weave back  I mark the door

If it hollows I let it through

If it stumbles I don't undo

Don't hang your hopes on some slow star

Don't carve my name where your heroes are

I'm no sparrow caught mid-flight

I break clean I hold no light

If I look slow I'm counting cracks

If I sound gone I'm marking tracks

Every tilt each hollow thread

Where old maps call the living dead

So I fixed the wire not the frame

Moved the mark where no hands claim

Stacked their wrecks outside the night

So no one else rewrites that fight

I don't wear grief like soft designs

I ride the noise and call the signs

And when it hums when it cuts clean

I keep the thread outside unseen

And when it hums when it cuts clean

I keep the thread outside unseen