[Intro — Almost Whispered] Four notes in the waterline Calling after midnight Not a song and not a warning Just a door beneath the light [Verse 1] Underneath the old observatory Where the rusted lenses sleep There are stairs behind the boiler Turning downward through the deep I followed where the sound was leading Past the clocks that would not move With every step the walls grew colder With every note, I somehow knew [Pre-Chorus] One for the road I chose One for the road denied One for the hand I could not hold What waits on the other side? [Chorus] Show me the fourth reflection The face the water hides Show me where this sorrow goes When there is nowhere left to hide I did not come for resurrection I did not come to be forgiven Show me the fourth reflection And the life I have not lived in [Instrumental Passage] [Verse 2] In the first room stood my childhood Still believing time was kind In the second, all the doorways I was too afraid to find In the third, you turned towards me Just before the image broke I reached down through your reflection But the water filled with smoke [Pre-Chorus] One for the words I kept One for the truth delayed One for the years I spent believing Love could only leave or stay [Chorus] Show me the fourth reflection The face the water hides Show me where this sorrow goes When there is nowhere left to hide I did not come for resurrection Or to bargain with the missing Show me the fourth reflection Show me what the dark is giving [Bridge — Voice, Single Chord and Tape Echo] The final room was empty No shadow on the wall No past beneath the surface No answer to my call Then the water showed tomorrow— My hands still closed in pain Guarding what had already left me Losing everything again [Quiet Refrain] So I opened them beneath it Let the current take its due Not the love and not the memory Only what I made them do [Final Chorus — Luminous, Restrained] I am the fourth reflection The face the water freed I can carry love without becoming Everything that grief would need I did not find resurrection I found something more forgiving I am the fourth reflection And I choose the life still living [Outro] Four notes in the waterline No longer asking why One for everything that brought me here And one to let it lie The chambers filled with golden light The morning found the stairs I left the water where it was But did not leave you there
