Solene Noir, Soul'd Out - The Light Between the Leaves

This morning the sun arrived in silence Spilling gold across the floor As if the sky had opened gently Like it had done a thousand times before The trees were speaking with the wind again In a language old and true And for a moment all the world Felt newly born and passing through How strange it is That beauty asks for nothing In the light between the leaves There's a secret I believe That every river every star Knows exactly who we are And every fleeting thing that fades Still leaves its color in our days Oh what a miracle it seems To wake inside these living dreams A thousand windows caught the sunset Like tiny fires in the rain And every face that passed before me Carried joy and carried pain Yet somehow all of it was lovely Not because it stayed the same But because it kept on changing Like a song without a name Perhaps the world is beautiful Because it never tries to be In the light between the leaves There's a secret I believe That every river every star Knows exactly who we are And every fleeting thing that fades Still leaves its color in our days Oh what a miracle it seems To wake inside these living dreams The clouds are drifting toward tomorrow The birds are disappearing west And all at once I understand Nothing is permanent and that is why it's blessed In the light between the leaves I find everything I need Not in answers not in gold But in stories quietly told In every season every breeze Every flower every sea Oh what a miracle it seems To belong to all these dreams The wind will go The stars will fade But tonight the world is beautiful And I am grateful that I stayed