Saltwater in the Hush (Version 2)

Verse

Shadows crawl across your chest

You're humming low in the velvet rest

I keep my eyes on yours, steady as stone

We hold our breath where the last drum tone went

Your fingers curl into the curve of mine

The room's soft dark and it's all defined by this one quiet line

The smoke from the cigarette curls slow, blue and thin

You pull it tight like a secret you just won

I lean my head against your shoulder bone

Breathe in deep through your hair like it's honeyed stone

Your heartbeat hums beneath my earlobe tonight

Like the whole city's just our own private light

Pre-Chorus

Tell me, darling, do you feel that too?

Is this the quiet or is this the breakthrough?

Do you see it yet in the amber glow of your eyes?

Or am I just reading in the smoke how this night goes?

Are we just waiting for the final drumbeat to sound

Or are our own two heartbeats turning up like thunder underground

Chorus

Saltwater in the hush, we're holding it down deep

Burning slow beneath the ceiling and the screen

Saltwater in the hush, we keep time in this room

Sweeter than the smoke that's curling from your mouth

This is not a moment, this is the whole of tonight

And every single second feels like an eternity

Verse

Your chest rises slow where my palm finds its place

The shadows deepen on the wall beside our face

I hum along with you in three different keys

You laugh and turn it into the blues

I pull your shoulders closer till they're flush against mine

Like we're trying to catch the last two breaths before we break through this skin

Pre-Chorus

Tell me, darling, do you feel that too?

Is this the quiet or is this the breakthrough?

Do you see it yet in the amber glow of your eyes?

Or am I just reading in the smoke how this night goes?

Are we just waiting for the final drumbeat to sound

Or are our own two heartbeats turning up like thunder underground

Chorus

Saltwater in the hush, we're holding it down deep

Burning slow beneath the ceiling and the screen

Saltwater in the hush, we keep time in this room

Sweeter than the smoke that's curling from your mouth

This is not a moment, this is the whole of tonight

And every single second feels like an eternity

Bridge

Maybe there's no beat to break free from

Maybe it's just two hearts learning where to land

The last cigarette flicks away like ash and light

But I don't want to leave this hush yet, I'll hold tight

I don't need a drumbeat to know we're alive

Your heart is my pulse, your breath is the rhyme

Chorus

Saltwater in the hush, we're holding it down deep

Burning slow beneath the ceiling and the screen

Saltwater in the hush, we keep time in this room

Sweeter than the smoke that's curling from your mouth

This is not a moment, this is the whole of tonight

And every single second feels like an eternity

Outro

Saltwater in the hush

Holding down the deep...