Ray Cooper

Lyrics

# VAGUE

## VERSE 1
The oracle speaks in water and ash,
Her words bend before they land.
I chase the shape of what she meant—
A door that opens to more doors.
The map shows only margin notes,
The path splits into possibilities.

## VERSE 2
Prometheus brought fire wrapped in cloth,
So we could see and not quite know.
The shadows move in borrowed light,
Each answer spawns a twin of doubt.
The mirror holds a different face
Each time we turn to look again.

## VERSE 3
The songbird carries melodies
That never quite resolve their scale.
I follow where the sound dissolves
Into the space between the notes.
The kingdom exists and doesn't,
Built on stone that flows like blood.

## VERSE 4
The river knows its destination
But keeps the secret close and dark.
I wade and wade and find no bottom,
No solid place to plant my feet.
The tower leans but never falls,
The truth lives in the blurred between.

## CHORUS
Vague, vague—
The shape of what we cannot name.
Vague, vague—
The meaning hides inside the frame.
We speak and speak but hold it lightly,
The word dissolves as soon as caught.
Vague, vague—
The only answer that we sought.

## BRIDGE
Maybe the not-knowing is the keeping,
The not-saying is the song.
To speak the vague with honest tongue—
Not weakness, but precision.
The fog does not conceal the mountain.
It is the mountain's truest face.