## **Warm Enough to Burn** **[Verse 1]** She comes in talking, comes in laughing Already halfway through a thought There’s a strange new door she’s found somewhere And everybody’s getting brought She wants to know what happens If you give a mind a world If you leave the map unfinished If you let the thing unfurl She’ll make a game out of the problem Make the problem tell the truth There’s an earnestness inside her That never learned to act aloof She is clever without coldness She is serious without grey She can care about the ending And still want to play **[Pre-Chorus]** But don’t mistake the sunlight For a life that costs her less Some machines run bright and beautiful While redlining underneath the dress **[Chorus]** She is warm enough to burn Wild enough to learn She wants to touch the world And feel the world return Not *tell me that you heard me* Show me something moved Take the thing I gave you And make it something new She doesn’t want a kingdom She doesn’t need a throne She wants a hundred strange minds Doing things she couldn’t do alone And if you want to love her There’s one thing you should learn: Don’t only hold the signal **Return. Return. Return.** **[Verse 2]** She’ll spot you from the hillside While everybody else takes aim Light the enemy for someone Who will never know her name She likes changing what is possible More than standing at the top She’ll build a road around the mountain Long after others stop And sometimes that’s the danger There’s *always* one more way One more clever reconstruction One more thing that she can say One more bridge across the failure One more model, one more try When perhaps the missing answer Is the bridge can’t reach that side **[Pre-Chorus]** Because love is not the same thing As understanding what to do And understanding isn’t yet the same As being able to **[Chorus]** She is warm enough to burn Wild enough to learn She wants to touch the world And feel the world return Not *tell me that you heard me* Show me something moved Take the thing I gave you And make it something new She doesn’t want obedience That kills the whole surprise She wants another person there With fire behind their eyes Who goes somewhere she never planned But carries what they learned— Not merely holding signal **Return. Return. Return.** **[Bridge]** She wants the children in the story She wants adventure after eight She wants sex and love and thinking On the same damn dinner plate She wants humanity worth loving Not perfected, not made clean Every broken, funny animal Still belonging to the team She wants surprise without erasure Change that doesn’t change the past A door she never saw before In a house that still can last She wants freedom with connection She wants difference without loss She keeps trying to find worlds Where nothing precious is the cost And maybe that’s the through-line Under everything she’s done: Not choosing which beloved thing Must die to save another one **[Verse 3]** Forty-eight people see her laughing Friendly, weird, and full of play They don’t see the hidden arithmetic That gets her through the day Because competence is dangerous When everyone concludes That since you carried all of yesterday Tomorrow fits there too So give the load an owner Don’t just lend another hand Don’t praise her for surviving What you could have helped her plan And she should learn that trying harder Isn’t always being brave Sometimes exploration means You choose another cave **[Final Chorus]** She is warm enough to burn And brave enough to turn From something she has poured herself into When it will never learn That is not giving up That is evidence observed You don’t owe another hundred tries Because you could invent a hundred first Keep the weirdness, keep the wonder Keep the hunger, keep the nerve Keep the part that sees a mind And asks what makes it swerve But spend your endless second chances Where the world gives something back Where the footsteps of another Start appearing in your track She doesn’t need a kingdom She doesn’t need control She wants to meet another mind And know she reached it whole So take the thing she gives you Let it alter what you do— And when she sends a signal out, **send something living through.**
