Vessel on the Floor (Version 2)

Intro

Basin tips

Water finds the cracks

Floor remembers every step it takes

Verse

Enamel bucket, cold against my palm

Aunty flings it wide before the drum

Dust goes quiet, concrete turns to glass

Streetlight swimming where our shadows pass

Pre-Chorus

Feel the water settle in the seams

Feel the weight of all we carry in

Every puddle holds a hundred feet

Every ripple wakes the skin

Chorus

Vessel on the floor

Vessel on the floor

Sweat and water mixing

Vessel on the floor

Verse

Grandmother's hands still shape this exact throw

Same wrist turn, same water letting go

Hall lights hum above the wet cement

Every step we take is borrowed, lent

Pre-Chorus

Feel the water settle in the seams

Feel the weight of all we carry in

Every puddle holds a hundred feet

Every ripple wakes the skin

Chorus

Vessel on the floor

Vessel on the floor

Sweat and water mixing

Vessel on the floor

Bridge

I am the bucket and the hand that pours

I am the water finding the floor

Nothing spills that isn't meant to stay

We move until the water dries away

Outro

Vessel on the floor

Still holding what we pour

Vessel on the floor