Strata Deep

[Verse 1]
Red earth secrets, heavy in my bones
Tracing fault lines where the old grief slowly grows
Dust motes dance in the high Andean air
A hidden vein of sorrow, a burden I bear

[Chorus]
Strata deep, silence holds the hum
Stone and dust, where the echoes come
Strata deep, the truth I've become
A crystalline tear, for the ages it's spun

[Verse 2]
Grandmothers' whispers, etched in the ancient stone
A luminescence, fragile, softly shown
The petrichor memory, after mountain rain
Washing over old wounds, washing over old pain

[Bridge]
Under seismic pressure, the crystalline gleam
My heart a crucible, holding an ancient dream
Hidden truths surface, from the deep core of me

[Outro]
Just stone and dust, through the ages it weaves
What the silence held, my memory retrieves