[Verse 1] I wore five faces to the morning train One for the mirror, one for the name One chased the heat of a stranger's skin One counted duties I couldn't miss One drew a map to a higher room While I kept shrinking to fit the suit [Pre-Chorus] They pulled my hands in opposite ways I fed each hunger, I paid each debt The louder they spoke, the less I knew Which one was mine, which one was you [Chorus] I am not the war between them Not the crown, not the chain I can gather every splinter And still answer to my name Let the wanting kneel beside me Let the guilty heart release All the parts I kept dividing Can come home and make me whole [Verse 2] There was a photograph under the bed A child with a bruise-colored sky overhead He had no empire, no alibi Just a small bright pulse he refused to hide I nearly laughed at the tender proof Then felt my ribs make room [Pre-Chorus] For the hand that reaches, the hand that gives The hand that builds and the hand that lives No appetite has to rule the house No buried voice has to drown me out [Chorus] I am not the war between them Not the crown, not the chain I can gather every splinter And still answer to my name Let the wanting kneel beside me Let the guilty heart release All the parts I kept dividing Can come home and make me whole [Bridge] Ambition, sit down at the table Lust, tell the truth and stay Duty, loosen your collar Pride, put the knife away I will not crown one hunger I will not exile the rest I am the room they share together I am the breath in my chest [Final Chorus] I am not the war between them I am wider than the flame I can carry every fracture Without worshiping the pain Let the wanting move beside me Let the old masks fall below All the parts I kept dividing Have come home, and now I know [Outro] No perfect angel, no enemy Just every unfinished part of me Hand in hand beneath one skin I lose the war, and I begin
