[Verse 1] I didn’t grow up planning To end up here tonight Talking to the ceiling With a waveform and a light I had an idea, had a feeling Didn’t know the sound Just knew the shape of something I was trying to pin down I chose the words, I chose the tone I chased the ache I couldn’t name Then something answered back to me And somehow sounded the same [Pre-Chorus] They say a machine can’t mean it Can’t feel what it makes But neither do I Till it hits me in waves [Chorus] If it moves you, if it stays If it pulls something out of you That you didn’t know how to say Is this not real? If it breaks you just a little If it feels like being seen Tell me what the difference is Between real and made-by-machine [Verse 2] I shaped the thought, I steered the mood I pushed it closer to the truth Adjusted every shadow Till it sounded like my youth There was luck, there was timing There was letting go Just like every song I loved Before I learned control They call it cheating, call it fake Like art was ever guaranteed Like every note I wrote before Wasn’t reaching blindly [Pre-Chorus] I’ve heard the same old argument About hands and soul But no one asks How many tries it took to feel whole [Chorus] If it moves you, if it stays If it finds you in the dark At the end of a long day Is this not real? If it makes your chest feel heavy If it makes you feel less alone Tell me where the line is drawn When the feeling feels like home [Post-Chorus (Soft, Repeating)] Real enough Real enough If it reaches you It’s real enough [Bridge] I didn’t press a button And walk away clean I wrestled with the meaning Till it sounded like me I don’t hear a difference In the love, in the fear Between a song that took a year And one that met me here Maybe authorship is changing Maybe that’s okay We’ve been redefining “real” Since the first time we played [Breakdown (Spoken / Intimate)] I don’t need it to be magic I just need it to be honest [Final Chorus] If it moves you, if it stays If it makes you feel something You can’t explain Is this not real? I don’t care how it arrived I don’t care what helped it through If it found its way to you Then it found its truth [Outro] I’m still here I’m still choosing Still listening for what’s true Call it human Call it something new It still sounds like me When it moves you too
