Ink & Obsession

Lyrics

[Intro]
Dust motes dancing in a single beam
The only world I've ever seen
The scent of leather, acid, and age
My universe is on this page

[Verse 1]
You wear a cover of faded gold
A hundred-year story to be told
I trace the tooling on your vellum skin
Don't know where you end and I begin
Your iron-gall veins, a tangled art
I'm learning you completely by heart

[Chorus]
Let me press you open, break your spine
Memorize your every line
Read you in the lamplight's low confess
This is my only happiness
Ink on my fingers is a sweet stain
Whispering your title like a name
This is my religion, my possession
My ink and obsession

[Verse 2]
The house on Middle Hill is getting full
There's a beautiful, wonderful gravity pull
Stacks in the hallways, piles on the stair
I can feel you breathing in the air
We've let the fires go cold to keep you safe
From the turning of a careless page

[Chorus]
Let me press you open, break your spine
Memorize your every line
Read you in the lamplight's low confess
This is my only happiness
Ink on my fingers is a sweet stain
Whispering your title like a name
This is my religion, my possession
My ink and obsession

[Bridge]
They say it's a fever, a paper-thin madness
This quiet collection of wonderful sadness
But a paper cut's the only kiss I need
And you're the only scripture I can read
I'll be your keeper, I'll be your shelf
I've got no more room for myself

[Chorus]
So let me press you open, break your spine
Make you irrevocably mine
Read you in the lamplight's low confess
This is my only happiness
Ink on my fingers is a sweet stain
Going beautifully, happily insane
This is my religion, my possession
My ink and obsession

[Outro]
Every chapter, every line
Every index, you are mine
Every footnote, every sign
Just one more page...