VIOLET HOURS — Matt Bargar
Original companion lyrics. The audio is instrumental; no recorded singer or synthetic speech is represented as a vocal performance.

01. The Room Before Light
A room before the light arrives.
The window holds a violet tide.
I leave a little space unfilled.
The air comes in; the air is still.

02. Glass Has a Memory
Glass has a memory of fire.
A cooling curve, a quiet wire.
I set it down beside the rain.
It catches light and lets it change.

03. Velvet Switch
A velvet switch beneath my hand.
A little spark without a plan.
The floor becomes a moving line.
I miss a step and make it mine.

04. A Door Made of Air
A door made of air, no lock and no key.
The shape of the opening changes with me.
I take nothing out, I bring nothing through.
The room on the other side turns slowly blue.

05. Night Orchard
The night orchard opens its electric leaves.
Fruit full of weather hangs over the street.
We gather the colors that fall from the trees.
And carry them home in the soles of our feet.

06. Unwritten Streets
No names on the map of these unwritten streets.
A rhythm of windows, a rhythm of feet.
The corner is different each time we return.
A light stays awake where the old bridges turn.

07. The Shape of Staying
Stay like a shadow that moves with the day.
Stay like a river that never can stay.
Nothing to hold and no distance to prove.
The shape of staying has room enough to move.

08. Leave the Window Open
Leave the window open when the last note goes.
Let the curtains listen to the traffic below.
There is no final color in the morning sky.
Only light arriving, and a little room inside.