[Intro]
Above the ridge the dark kept opening
Not empty
Layered
Not silent
Ringing
I tilted my face and the night became architecture
Three arches of impossible patience
And I was small enough to understand

[Verse 1]
In the Swiss Alps the snow held blue after midnight
My breath kept leaving me in pale receipts
The Milky Way bent once
Then again
Then once more
A triple arch sewn over the mountains
And zodiacal light climbed the black like a quiet fire
No billboard could survive that width
No doctrine could contain it
The stones were colder than language
The pines smelled sharp as struck glass
I stood there with my animal pulse
Trying not to reduce the sky to adjectives

[Pre-Chorus]
How do you look at scale this clean
And keep pretending your life is central
How does the chest stay closed
When the dark is this full of doors

[Chorus]
Triple arch over me
Triple arch over me
Make my little fear a weather pattern
Triple arch over me
Triple arch over me
Turn my mouth to light and meter
Oh-oh, I can hear the heavens lean
Oh-oh, I am smaller than serene

[Verse 2]
Somewhere above the auroral math and magnet shame
The solar wind was running 510 kilometers each second
Invisible violence
Invisible caress
Particles crossing the dark like urgent script
And down here my blood kept ordinary time
One heart-kick at a time into the snow
The universe is rude that way
It gives you beauty with numbers attached
It says behold and calculate
It says tremble and learn the units
It says the cold can still be intimate

[Pre-Chorus]
The sky was not kind
The sky was magnificent
There is a difference
There is a gift in that difference

[Chorus]
Triple arch over me
Triple arch over me
Make my little fear a weather pattern
Triple arch over me
Triple arch over me
Turn my mouth to light and meter
Oh-oh, I can hear the heavens lean
Oh-oh, I am smaller than serene

[Bridge]
If I disappeared tonight
The mountain would keep its shape
The zodiacal veil would keep climbing
The particles would keep arriving
And somehow that does not erase me
It rinses me
It clears the cheap film from my thinking
It says you are brief
So be brilliant while brief

[Final Chorus]
Triple arch over me
Triple arch over me
I am not the center, I am included
Triple arch over me
Triple arch over me
Write me in with frost and lucid blue
Oh-oh, every star becomes a seam
Oh-oh, every seam remakes the dream
Triple arch over me
Triple arch over me
I came here one body and left here plural

[Outro]
The ridge goes still
The snow goes silver
My breath goes home slowly
But some part of me stays arched
In that impossible blue-black room