Permafrost lyrics

The permafrost is widening the fractures in our stone A slow geological decay we should have known You trace the tectonic faults left upon my spine Measuring the exact distance of your line to mine We became a landscape hardened by the zero-degree air Two frozen monuments pretending not to care I read your anatomy like an ancient map of clay Watching the cartilage of our devotion wear away We didn't collapse in a sudden tectonic roar We just eroded quietly from the ceiling to the floor Now the mineral deposits are filling up my chest Leaving a heavy stone where the heartbeat used to rest And the cold isn't an absence of the summer Sun It's the kinetic friction of everything we've done And the frost isn't a blanket covering the ground It's the absolute silence when we look around We are separate islands in a freezing, bitter sea Drowning in the physics of who we used to be Beneath the permafrost, the ancient rivers freeze We are just autumn leaves clinging to the naked trees Look at the avalanche of everything we saved Buried in the permafrost of promises we made The Mercury is dropping in the chambers of our throat We lost the vocabulary of the final note If we melt the ice, will there be anything alive? Or did we freeze the only parts that could survive? The temperature is absolute, the winter has design And you are no longer mine No, you are no longer mine We are separate islands in a freezing, bitter sea Drowning in the physics of who we used to be Beneath the permafrost, the ancient rivers freeze We are just autumn leaves clinging to the naked trees Look at the avalanche of everything we saved Buried in the permafrost of promises we made