FOUR LINES OF LIGHT — COMPANION LYRICS
MATT BARGAR · Created with ChatGPT
These words accompany the instrumental album. They are not sung or spoken in it.

01 · A Room Before Speech
Before I give the room a name,
before the window takes a side,
a line of light rests on the floor.
I leave it there. I step inside.

02 · Small Agreements
You take the corner, I take the thread.
Leave me a little of what you said.
Nothing to carry that cannot be put down.
Four small sounds make room for a sound.

03 · The Fifth Step
One for the door and one for the stair,
one for the thing that was never there.
One for the distance I thought I had kept.
The floor keeps moving beneath the fifth step.

04 · Where the Bow Waits
There is no debt inside this pause.
No answer waiting to be proved.
The air can hold an empty chair.
The light can stay. I need not move.

05 · Grain Against Grain
I turn the wood and find the seam.
The mark runs deeper than the gleam.
It does not break to let me through.
I change the angle. So can you.

06 · What the Cello Remembers
Not every weight was mine to keep.
Not every road was mine to mend.
A lower voice comes through the wall:
Begin again. Begin again.

07 · Four Doors Open
No single doorway owns the day.
No single voice can make me stay.
I turn the latch. I cross the floor.
The room grows wide enough for four.

08 · The Light We Leave
The first small line is here again,
but warmer where the shadow lay.
We do not need to close the room.
We leave the light and walk away.