Track Insight / Lyrics
On North-facing stone, you cling close
In shallow soil, your green roots grow
Bryum whispers where the cold winds blow
You hold what all the winter let go
Your velvet carpet rounds the stone
Soft Hypnum hums beneath, alone
I press my ear and hear you breathe
Where shaded cracks let tiny leaves
Grow soft on the North-facing stone
Your tiny hands have claimed my own
Make me believe that love can take root
In every small and tender shoot
You spread in silver, slow by slow
No roots complain, no branches go
You hold the stone in winter's hand
A doorway where no sunlight goes
One green insistence, strong and small
You climb the cold where gray clouds fall
I kneel in rain and call you friend
And watch your patient circles mend
Grow soft on the North-facing stone
Your tiny hands have claimed my own
Make me believe that love can take root
In every small and tender shoot
Underfoot the decades wait
Patient, green, and never late
I learn from you how stone can hold
A forest in the cracks of cold
I marked your first green, a pin-sized spark
Now cousins spread from root to bark
The north wind bends, but you remain
A quiet life beyond the vein
Grow bright on the North-facing stone
Your quiet strength has claimed my soul
Love, I can see that we take root
In every small and tender shoot
North-facing stone, receive my hand
As moss climbs gently over land
I see you green, I see you grow
And find that hard ground learns to hold
