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[verse 1] i feel lighter than i have in so much time / ive crossed the border lime of weightless / one deep breath out from the skyALT
She mentally found herself all of a sudden in front of the doors of Drearburh—four years old again, and screaming—and all her fear and hate of them went away. Drearburh was empty. There was no Crux. There were no godawful great-aunts. There were no restless corpses, no strangers in coffins, no dead parents. Instead, she was Drearburh. She was Gideon Nav, and Nav was a Niner name. She took the whole putrid, quiet, filth-strewn madness of the place, and she opened her doors to it. Her hands were not shaking anymore.ALT
Once I had wondered what was holding up the ground / but I can see that all along, love, it was you all the way downALT
She said, “Harrow, I can’t keep my promise, because the entire point of me is you. You get that, right? That’s what cavaliers sign up for. There is no me without you. One flesh, one end.”ALT
[pre chorus] and though i burn how could i fall? / when u am lifted up by every word you say to meALT
“Gideon the Ninth, first flower of my House,” she said hoarsely, “you are the greatest cavalier we have ever produced. You are our triumph. The best of all of us. It has been my privilege to be your necromancer.” That was enough.ALT
[pre chorus] leave it now, i am sky bound / if you need to, darling, lean your weight to meALT
She lifted Harrow’s arm with the hilt clutched in it. Her fingers, rough and strong and sure, moved Harrow’s other hand into place above the pommel. “I know the sword,” she said. “And now, so do you.”ALT
[intro] if the wind turns, if i hit a squall / allow the ground to find its brutal way to meALT
“For the Ninth!” said Gideon. And she fell forward, right on the iron spikes.ALT

I, Carrion (Icarian) by Hozier // Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir