Aurora Lyra · The Black Bond · Track 05 of 12
Hair
“watching longer than I had been allowing myself”
Tenderness leaks through the bond before either character will admit it — guitar, brushed strings, the held breath of being seen.
Movement
Threshold
Length
3:25
Scene
Ch. 16
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Part of the twelve-track Aurora Lyra album, The Black Bond — Companion Album.
Full lyrics
“Hair”
Intro
instrumental, ~20 sec on cello drone + frame drum on the half
Instrumental.
Verse 1
The partition was wool, half a hand from the wall
I cut my hair myself with a knife in the loft mirror
It was uneven, and short, and that was always the point
He watched longer than I had been allowing myself
Both can be true, I told myself, in my head —
The mirror, and the partition, and the want
Pre-Chorus
The bond did not lie
The bond did not soften what was crossing
I felt his attention like a hand I had not asked for
I felt his attention like a hand I had not refused
Chorus
A course-correction, and the loft went quiet
A course-correction, and the partition stood
The spiral on my arm lifted slightly
And the lamp bent in the wind
Verse 2
He did not move when I crossed his side
He did not say what the bond had said for him
And I cut another piece of hair I did not need to cut
And I did not look up
Both can be true, I told the mirror —
And the mirror told the bond
Pre-Chorus
The bond did not lie
The bond did not soften what was crossing
I felt his attention like a hand I had not asked for
I felt his attention like a hand I had not refused
Chorus
A course-correction, and the loft went quiet
A course-correction, and the partition stood
The spiral on my arm lifted slightly
And the lamp bent in the wind
Bridge
The wool of the partition did not muffle anything
The wool of the partition was not the point
The point was that we both knew what was on the other side
And neither of us moved
Final Chorus
A course-correction, and the loft went quiet
A course-correction, and the partition stood
The spiral on my arm lifted slightly
And the lamp bent in the wind
And the partition stood
And neither of us moved
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The scene
Ch. 16 · Aedran watching Mira cut her hair. Tenderness crossing the bond.
The line the track turns on
“watching longer than I had been allowing myself”
About the track
Tenderness leaks through the bond before either character will admit it — guitar, brushed strings, the held breath of being seen.
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
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Twelve songs in three movements. Threshold. Storm. Cost. The album scored to the spine of The Black Bond.
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The Black Bond
She put him in a cage. Three years later, his dragon chose her.
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