Soft Power

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
No hard edges in this place
No strict lines I have to trace
Just a kingdom of embrace
A more convincing kind of grace
You rewrite the architecture
With a single, gentle lecture
Spoken in a curve, a sign
That makes this territory mine

[Chorus]
It’s that soft power you command
A silent coup across the land
An empire in a held-out hand
I completely understand
There's no debate, no need to fight
You just assume your sovereign right
And you win me over every night

[Verse 2]
The old masters would have known
The value of the seeds you've sown
This rich earth, your gentle throne
A beauty they could call their own
They kept nineteen mirrors on the wall
To watch the light and shadow fall
But all that silver can't contain
The weather of your sweet domain

[Chorus]
It’s that soft power you command
A silent coup across the land
An empire in a held-out hand
I completely understand
There's no debate, no need to fight
You just assume your sovereign right
And you win me over every night

[Bridge]
It's the opposite of violence
This warm and heavy, settled silence
The gravity that pulls me near
And vaporizes all my fear
It's a yielding, not a war
What was I even fighting for?

[Chorus]
It’s that soft power you command
A silent coup across the land
An empire in a held-out hand
I finally understand
There's no debate, no need to fight
You just assume your sovereign right
And you win me over every night

[Outro]
Yeah, you win me over
With that soft power
Just soft power
All this soft power...