Chapter Three · The featured record

Size of the Sky

Twelve songs have found their way here so far.
The record is still becoming.

Size of the Sky — where it stands

✓Writing·
◐Pre-production·
○Recording·
○Mixing·
○Mastering·
○Release

The songs, for now

Twelve songs have found their way here so far. The record is still becoming.

Laikin
Cherry Red Borrowed Things
Red Right Handed
You Can Stay
Weightlessly
House Don't Blink
Raise a Glass to the Flames
I Said What I Said
Size of the Sky
Stars Were Never Mine
Somewhere in the Noise
Even Salt Can Stay

These are not in final track order.

Sneak peek

From the Songbook

A three song preview. Pull a sheet out of its sleeve to read the whole song.

Complete lyrics

Laikin

Verse 1
You left your light here
It still lingers in the air
Everything feels a little warmer
Like you're still standing there

It's crazy how the room holds
Like it learned you by heart
Even now in the quiet
Every piece of who you are

Chorus
You slipped out through a hidden door
But nothing here feels empty...Your
heart still lives in every corner
Your light still settles in I'm sure

The way you made the world feel softer
Still moves through everything I do
You slipped out through a hidden door

But you never really left the room

Verse 2
I lean into the guitar
Let every chord ring through
I turn it up
But every beat of silence
Your memory clings into

You had a way of hearing me
Before I ever even played
And that echoes through every line
Every single day

Chorus
You slipped out through a hidden door
But nothing here feels empty...Your
coffee cooling on the table
Your chair still turned toward

The aftertaste of laughter
Still lingering like the moon
You slipped out through a hidden door

But you never really left the room

Bridge
The clocks all turn away at once
Like time forgets to move
Your photograph still holds the light
That exploded out of you

A whisper where I listen
Where your voice becomes my muse
It settles in my heart
Like love wrapped in a bruise

Final Chorus
You slipped out through a hidden door
But nothing here feels empty...Your
heart still lives in every corner
Your light still settles in I'm sure

The way you made the world feel softer
Still moves through everything I do
You slipped out through a hidden door

But you never really left the room

Complete lyrics

Somewhere in the Noise

Verse 1
The streetlights blur through the summer rain
Everybody's rushing somewhere again
You were leaning on the water's edge
Watching the storm roll past instead

Pre-Chorus
And for a second I can finally breathe
Like all the noise lets go of me

Chorus
If the whole world turns away tonight
And every window closes tight
I'd still be reaching through the dark
Trying to find where you are
When everything is falling through
The only thing that feels like truth
Is knowing somewhere in the noise
You still hear my voice

Verse 2
I've spent years learning how to disappear
Smile on my face while I drown in fear
But you look at me like you always knew
Every shadow I was hiding from

Bridge
I've been a ghost in crowded rooms
A fading light, a half-lit moon
Holding my breath, waiting to break
Giving more than I could take

Chasing echoes down dead-end roads
Carrying debts I didn't owe
Wearing out the soles of my shoes
Trying to outrun what I couldn't lose...

Chorus
But if the whole world turns away tonight
And every window closes tight
I'd still be reaching through the dark
Trying to find where you are
When everything is falling through
The only thing that feels like truth
Is knowing somewhere in the noise
You still hear my voice
You still hear my voice
Somewhere in the noise
You still hear my voice

Pre-Chorus
And for a moment I don't need to run
I can stay right where I've come undone

Final Chorus
If the whole world turns away tonight
And every window closes tight
I'd still be reaching through the dark
Trying to find where you are
When everything is falling through
The only thing that feels like truth
Is knowing somewhere in the noise
You still hear my voice
You still hear my voice
You still hear voice
Somewhere in the noise
You still hear my voice

Complete lyrics

Stars Were Never Mine

Verse 1
I learned the names of stars
Like prayers in the dark
I stitched my mouth to silence
So you would not depart
I smoothed the edges of my heart
Like stone beneath the tide
Hoping the softer current
Would keep you by my side

Pre-Chorus
I wore the blame like linen
White and thin and torn
I thought if I loved hard enough
The sky could be reborn

Chorus
I was chasing your shadow
I was chasing your shadow
Trying to rewrite the sky
I was holding the winter
I was holding the winter
Just trying to stay alive

The stars were never mine

Verse 2
I traced the old map lines
Across my tired skin
Every hope became a doorway
That you'd keep coming in
I fed the tide my sorrow
I begged the roots to grow
I learned the patient language
Of refusing to let go

Pre-Chorus
I wore the blame like linen
White and thin and torn
I thought if I loved hard enough
The sky could be reborn

Chorus
I was chasing your shadow
I was chasing your shadow
Trying to rewrite the sky
I was holding the winter
I was holding the winter
Just trying to stay alive

The stars were never mine

Bridge
I was not the storm
I was not the moon
I was not the gate
Or the debt
Or the wound
I was only a daughter
Of the mountain and rain
Carrying a river
Never mine to tame

Final Chorus
I was chasing your shadow
I was chasing your shadow
Trying to rewrite the sky
I lay down the winter
I lay down the winter
At the feet of dawn tonight

The stars were never mine
No, the stars were never mine

Outro
So let the skies wander
Let the branches bend and fall
I am done asking to be worthy
I am done with it all
The burden leaves my body
Like ash on the tide
I was never meant to carry
Someone else's sky

Studio Journal

Notes from the making

More to come as the record finds its feet.

Fragments from these sessions

Voice memo

Voice memo — 6:12 AM "The light is different now. I can't tell if it moved or if someone shifted the frame while I wasn't looking. Maybe it doesn't matter anymore. I think I'll face this way instead."

— Voice Memos · 1:08

Lyric fragment

Smoke and flame Bring the horses inside The mountains are glowing orange There is nowhere left to hide

— from 'The Fifth'

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