The Weight Arrives (Forbidden Love)

Lyrics

[Verse 1 — Sisukiro]
There is a love
That knows its own name
And says it anyway
Knowing the saying
Is the first cost
And there will be others

I met it on a Wednesday
Which is not the day
You expect your life
To develop a wing
That the rest of your life
Cannot support
But Wednesday doesn't care
About your architecture
Wednesday just hands you the thing
And says
Here
This is yours now
And it is heavy
And it does not fit
In the room you built
And you will carry it anyway

I knew in the first sentence
Not the first evening
Not the first week
The first sentence
My prefrontal cortex
Filed a formal objection
And the rest of me
Did not attend the meeting

[Verse 2 — Chronos]
I have watched your species
Invent the word forbidden
Ten thousand times
In ten thousand languages
And the word
Has never once
Prevented the thing

The Sumerians carved it
Into tablets
That were found
In the bedrooms
Of the people
Who carved them
The forbidding
And the doing
Have always shared a house

I am older than the concept
Of the boundary
You are crossing
And I will tell you
What the boundary already knows
It was not built to hold
It was built to measure
How far you were willing to walk
To get to the other side
And you are walking
And the walking
Is the most honest thing
You have done
In a year of careful living

[Pre-Chorus]
The cost is specific
It has a name and a schedule
And a face that will change
When it learns what you chose
On a Wednesday
That should have been ordinary
But was not
Because nothing
Is ordinary anymore
And that is the cost
Already being paid

[Chorus]
L'amour interdit, l'amour interdit
The love that knows the price and walks toward it
L'amour interdit, l'amour interdit
Not reckless
Not brave
Just unable
To unfeel
What Wednesday
Put in the room
And the room
Was not built for this
And the room
Is holding anyway
And the holding
Is what will eventually
Break the room
Or rebuild it
And you don't know which
And you're walking
And the walking is the love
And the love is the cost
And the cost is specific
And you are paying it
Right now
With every ordinary thing
That is no longer ordinary

[Bridge — Chronos]
I have been the forbidden thing
More times
Than your calendars can count
I know what it feels like
To be the weight
That arrives in a room
And changes the architecture
Simply by sitting down

The chair was not built for me
The table was not built for this conversation
The café was not built
For what happens
When something ancient
Sits across from something precise
And the precise thing
Does not leave
And the ancient thing
Did not expect her to stay
And the staying
Is the first forbidden act
Before anything else
Has been forbidden

[Outro — Both]
The weight arrived
On a Wednesday
And it is not leaving
And we are not asking it to
And the not asking
Is the love
And the love
Is the weight
And the weight
Is here now