Aurora Lyra · The Black Bond · Track 03 of 12
Crayon
“things the vault could not take”
A piano-and-vocal lament about the small surviving things grief leaves intact when everything else has been taken.
Movement
Threshold
Length
3:48
Scene
Ch. 4
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Part of the twelve-track Aurora Lyra album, The Black Bond — Companion Album.
Full lyrics
“Crayon”
Intro
instrumental, ~25 sec on solo piano + cello drone on D
Instrumental.
Verse 1
I had a stub of crayon, oxblood, two inches
I had the wall, and the wall did not change
I had a count I would not let into my mouth
And a brother's name I said only with my teeth
Pre-Chorus
I drew the wing on the wall I could not leave
I drew the wing on the wall that was the world
I drew the wing on the wall I could not leave
Chorus
Three years and a name I did not say
Three years and the count was stone
The wall did not change
I drew the wing I would not own
Verse 2
The food came twice a week
The man who brought it did not look at me
I learned my voice again in three-minute pieces
I learned to keep my brother in my chest
Pre-Chorus
I drew the wing on the wall I could not leave
I drew the wing on the wall that was the world
I drew the wing on the wall I could not leave
Chorus
Three years and a name I did not say
Three years and the count was stone
The wall did not change
I drew the wing I would not own
Bridge
The vault did not let weather in
The vault did not let language out
The crayon was the only thing that moved
And I said his name only when I was alone
Final Chorus
Three years and a name I did not say
Three years and the count was stone
The wall did not change
I drew the wing I would not own
A stub of crayon, oxblood, two inches
And it counted everything I could not say
Lyrics © Aurora Lyra. All rights reserved.
The scene
Ch. 4 · Aedran in the vault. A stub of crayon. A brother's name said silently.
The line the track turns on
“things the vault could not take”
About the track
A piano-and-vocal lament about the small surviving things grief leaves intact when everything else has been taken.
The Black Bond is the first novel of The Skarn Reach, an Aurora Lyra romantasy. Every Aurora Lyra novel ships with a companion album — twelve original songs scored to the book’s emotional spine. This track is one of three in the Threshold movement.
The world before the bond. Five tracks moving through the rite, the cold formality, the loft, the bond's first leak through the partition.
All twelve tracks
Hear the full arc.
Twelve songs in three movements. Threshold. Storm. Cost. The album scored to the spine of The Black Bond.
See the full track list →The novel this scores
The Black Bond
She put him in a cage. Three years later, his dragon chose her.
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