Quiet Rot lyrics

Intro

Verse 1There's a quiet kind of ruin that nobody sees
The slow give of the timber, the rot in the trees
We didn't fall apart in a fire or a flood
Just a softening, a sinking, a thinning of the blood

ChorusAnd it's pulling, pulling, the rot down underneath
The house is still standing but the floor's turned to grief
No alarm, no thunder, no reason to run
Just the dark in the rafters and the going-out sun

Verse 2I keep painting the shutters on a frame that's gone soft
Keep the lights on for someone who already walked off
You can't hear a thing breaking when it breaks this slow
It just answers a little less every time that you go

ChorusAnd it's pulling, pulling, the rot down underneath
The house is still standing but the floor's turned to grief
No alarm, no thunder, no reason to run
Just the dark in the rafters and the going-out sun

BridgeMaybe nothing ever shatters, it only erodes
Maybe love isn't a war, it's a road that just slows
Till the map and the morning and the meaning all blur
And you're holding a wall that remembers what we were

OutroPulling, pulling, the slow rot underneath
The house is still standing, but I'm under the wreath