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...
