Amber Hourglass

[Verse]
Tea stains on the white porcelain bowl
Creating the seventh ripple in the flow
The moment you untie the knot
Dewdrops fall into the old radio slot

Elevator numbers waltzing round
A sweater thread lingers on my right shoulder
Glass curtain walls reflecting clouds' fluff
Mending the wrinkles on your evening wind jacket's border

[Chorus]
Love is like migratory birds crossing the monsoon
Writing their wings as an unfinished tune
When the aurora grazes the trail of your fingertip
Time shatters into quartz granules on your wrist's grip

[Verse 2]
The weather forecast's zigzag lines
Entangle in the dance of the clothesline
You hum the off-key song
Suddenly awakening the island of the fireplace long

Fridge magnets collecting various weather tags
Pieced together into the fan of your eye-end smile
The goodnight swallowed by the subway's deep
Blossoming Persian chrysanthemums on the tape for a while

[Chorus]
If drawers could preserve the moonlight's shelf life
I'd conceal your lost button tears
When frost climbs the rose gold needle
It still reads the initial patterns at every turn

[Bridge]
The snow wove plush feathers on the eaves that year
Melting the brushstroke sentences between your brows
The cherry blossoms and tide messages we missed
Growing rings of fungi on the flip side of the old map somehow

[Chorus]
Simmer a can of hourglass with dusk's residual warmth
The scale sways a silent blue whale
When the universe hits rewind for the ninth time
Still searching for a nesting address in your pulse's trail