"Il n'est pas de sauveurs suprêmes
Ni Dieu ni César ni tribun"

An old song spoke of distant truths
Voices claimed in solemn hues
"There are no supreme saviors" they said
"Neither God nor Caesar nor tribune" they pled

But I hold a faith profound and deep
No grand savior no promises to keep
Just a belief in the divine
A presence vast a light that shines

"Il n'est pas de sauveurs suprêmes
Ni Dieu ni César ni tribun"

In this world of shifting sands
I find solace in unspoken lands
No tribune to raise a guiding hand
Just the whisper of a higher plan

But I hold a faith profound and deep
No grand savior no promises to keep
Just a belief in the divine
A presence vast a light that shines

"Il n'est pas de sauveurs suprêmes
Ni Dieu ni César ni tribun"

The lyrics of old still resonate
Yet in my heart I contemplate
No need for a figure to save the day
For I find my peace in another way

But I hold a faith profound and deep
No grand savior no promises to keep
Just a belief in the divine
A presence vast a light that shines

"Il n'est pas de sauveurs suprêmes
Ni Dieu ni César ni tribun"

Just the endless skies the stars above
And a quiet trust a boundless love

"Il n'est pas de sauveurs suprêmes
Ni Dieu ni César ni tribun"

I left at seventeen before the bread was warm
took the blue suitcase nobody claimed
Mother stood polishing the same clean glass
Dad read the paper without turning a page

There was a woman’s name behind the pantry clock
written twice then crossed with a kitchen knife
I asked who she was
They asked why I was still awake

Huh

They said “You’ll understand when you’re older”
So I got older somewhere else

I was gone before the kettle sang
gone before they fixed their tale
Let them blame my age my temper
let them blame the morning train

I was gone gone gone—
they can call it running if they like
I didn’t leave because they hated me
I left because they knew me wrong

Years later a stranger stopped me near the docks
said “You walk exactly like she did”
I laughed and asked “Who?”
She looked at me as though I’d made a joke

Then she handed me a photograph:
my father younger one hand out of frame
and a girl with my uneven teeth
wearing the blue suitcase name tag

Huh Small world
Terrible handwriting

She said “Your mother tried her best”
I said “Which one?”

I was gone before the kettle sang
gone before they fixed their tale
Let them blame my age my temper
let them blame the morning train

I was gone gone gone—
they can call it running if they like
I didn’t leave because they hated me
I left because they knew me wrong

Maybe I was kept
Maybe I was traded
Maybe love gets very polite
when the truth is complicated

I never asked again

That keeps them nervous

I was gone before the kettle sang
gone before they fixed their tale
Let them polish every answer
I know where the story fails

I was gone gone gone—
huh they still insist I’m wild
I didn’t leave because I hated them
I left as someone else’s child

Woke up with a little spark

Why do great times feel so silent
Why do doormen wear rags
Why do women in love
Feel so dead

In a dead world why do great times feel so silent
Over ripped sheet music why do doormen wear rags
On the Pavonia sewers why do women in love
Feel so dead in a dead world
Where Albion is silent where Albion is silent

Why do great times feel so silent
Why do doormen wear rags
Why do women in love
Feel so dead

Why is our pretty nurse standing there
Why that sorry expression on the face of her lover
So I spake to him of womankind
I said here council's floral it svours like the thyme

He said
How could you blame me when I told you it was her
I said
And we know the truth
You're a lover like your father

Later in the painting room as Ripper's painting light
Comes the lover placed by my hand
On the canvas of our wedding night
There a similitude derues your lover's blush tonight
As her florescent eyes explore mine
So remember even flowers are suseptible to night

Side door
No line
No wristband
I’m already mine

Didn’t wear silver to be seen
Didn’t ask the night to be clean
Walked in crooked — stayed aligned
What’s not lit still gets defined

I don’t wait for cues
I don’t nod I move

No auditions
This role’s been filled
I don’t rehearse
I just build
Don’t need lines
Don’t need praise
I write the room
I set the stage

I don’t chase what’s framed in glass
If it cracks I let it pass
My rhythm folds then breaks the grid
Truths don’t scream — they stay hid

Lights don’t lead
I choose my scene

No auditions
This role’s been filled
I don’t rehearse
I just build
Don’t need lines
Don’t need praise
I write the room
I set the stage

Spotlight blinks
But I don’t bow
I was the plot
You just see it now

No auditions
No design
I don’t perform
I define
Don't need signs
Don't need doors
I walk through
And build the floor

Uuuh
Aaaa
I had the chalk I had the board
Thought I knew what I was fighting for

I mapped it out like a perfect line
Variables dancing in my mind
Tried to graph where you might be
But love don’t fit no geometry

Slopes and curves they lied to me
No formula for what you see
You’re that value off the grid
And I solved what no one ever did

Every X I tried to crack
Led me closer no way back
Thought I had it all misread
But you were waiting up ahead

You don’t know how many Xs I had to break
To get one inch closer to Y (uh-huh)
I carried numbers like they were names
Till the moment you met my eye (ooooh)
It’s a mess of signs and endless tries
But now your logic redefines (yeaaah)
You don’t know how many Xs I had to face
Just to solve for a single Y

(Uuh uuh — that single Y)
(Aaah all those Xs I tried)

Circle back erase the trace
You’re the answer that now holds its place
I tried dividing all the pain
But you were constant in the rain

Was it sine or just a sign?
You curved in at the perfect time
I drew a heart inside the square
And this time you were really there

I factored in the nights alone
Calculated love unknown
But this equation found its truth
When all the numbers pointed to you

I reduced and simplified
You multiplied what’s deep inside
Left the questions in the dust
Now the formula is us

You don’t know how many Xs I had to break
To find the one and only Y (yeah yeah)
I carried numbers like they were names
But you gave meaning to the why (no no)
It’s a mess of signs and endless tries
Now it all aligns no need to lie (uh-huh)
You don’t know how many Xs I had to face
Just to solve for a single Y

(Uuh that final Y)
(Aaaah no more Xs I…)

Maybe you were undefined
In the limits of my mind
An asymptote I chased in vain
Till you stood right in the frame

You don’t know how many Xs I had to break
To stand here holding onto Y
I carried numbers like they were weights
But now the answer meets the sky
The signs were loud the tries were wild
But now I see the reason why
You don’t know how many Xs I had to face
Just to know that Y was you

(Uuh you’re my Y)
(Aaaah it’s always been you)

So I drop the pen the work is done
You were the proof the only one
No more math no more try
You’re my answer — you’re my Y

Bump into me and act like you don't know
A place we can be that's never cold
It's so high
Keep me warm
And I won't go

It's endless
Endless
And we can be forever young
And we can be forever
Endless
Endless
And we can be forever young
And we can be forever

It's gonna feel like magic
Floating in the air
It's so good
It shouldn't be
And no one will ever know

Endless
Endless
And we can be forever young
And we can be forever
Endless
Endless
And we can be forever young
And we can be forever
Endless
Endless
And we can be forever young
And we can be forever
Endless
Endless
And we can be forever young
And we can be forever
Endless

We got a little time
Let's burn a little more
Soakin' in the sunshine
In love with the shore
And when the night falls
I get a little bored
I think of you

In a sundress (Ooh)
Dancin' with the moonlight (Ah)
Can't get enough
Let's fall in love

We're all just a summer fling
Who cares if it ends?
We're here for the ride
One last goodbye
Mm-mm
We're all just a summer fling
And even when it ends
We're here for the ride
One last goodbye
Mm-mm

Ooh
Ooh

We're all just a summer fling
Who cares if it ends?
We're here for the ride
One last goodbye
Mm-mm
We're all just a summer fling
And even when it ends
We're here for the ride
One last goodbye
Mm-mm

Ooh
Ooh