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Room to Breathe

Verse 1 Boxes stacked against the hallway wall Half my life still packed away Artemis says, “You’ll figure it out” Like she’s never doubted a day No greenhouse glass No watchful eyes No schedule hanging over me For the first time in forever The future feels like something I can reach Pre-Chorus Maybe freedom feels exactly like this A little terrifying A little beautiful Chorus So here’s to late nights And takeout on the floor To making mistakes And not keeping score Here’s to finding my own way Without somebody showing me For the first time in my life I’ve got room to breathe Verse 2 And somehow in a single week I’ve managed to embarrass myself completely At an Olympian party In front of the God of the Underworld Which sounds much worse Than it actually was Because he was kind And honestly… I wasn’t expecting that Pre-Chorus Maybe the world is bigger Than the stories I was told Maybe some doors open When you’re brave enough to go Chorus So here’s to late nights And takeout on the floor To making mistakes And not keeping score Here’s to finding my own way Without somebody showing me For the first time in my life I’ve got room to breathe Bridge Artemis is laughing Someone turns the music up Everybody’s talking at once And somehow that’s enough For the first time in a long time I don’t feel out of place For the first time in a long time I think I’m gonna be okay Final Chorus Here’s to new friends And open doors To all the things I’ve never tried before Here’s to building something That finally belongs to me For the first time in my life I’ve got room to breathe Outro A knock at the door Artemis smiles “That’s my brother.” The room goes quiet I don’t know why But suddenly I can’t breathe