Avawatz

"Avawatz" (2026) Lyrics by J. Widener with AI-assisted music The dry air finds me in the early morning silence Before the day arranges all its noise A certain kind of light across an empty stretch of nowhere Still carries something older in its voice And sometimes in the distance something black moves through the silence Slow circles in a pale and waking sky I never learned exactly what remained there after all these years Only that it never fully died I can still hear the desert No matter how far I've come I can still hear the ravens No matter what I've become The voice that stays The voice that stays Still calling Still There were days that felt suspended somewhere outside of ordinary Long afternoons dissolving into gold The wind moved through abandoned things as if it understood them As if the quiet had its own control And all these years later certain mornings still return there Without permission, without any sound A feeling like a landscape waiting just beyond the visible Just underneath the ground I can still hear the desert No matter how far I've come I can still hear the ravens No matter what I've become The voice that stays The voice that stays Still calling Still calling Still Some places never leave you They wait beneath the noise Like something unfinished Still speaking in your voice I'd go back if returning Was something people do But distance changes nothing The desert still comes through I can still hear the desert I can still hear the ravens I can still hear the morning Still Still Still Still hear the desert Still hear the morning Still hear the black wings Crossing through the blue