[Verse 1] Right there Where quiet stays crowded Every unsaid word Leaning in Your hum So soft it stains the timber Like heat that never left The grain of things [Chorus] A thousand times before A thousand more That’s how real things speak In the echo of an open door In the soft that never has to plead You don’t have to raise your voice For me to hear you clear A thousand times before A thousand more You keep arriving here [Verse 2] In the pause That chose to hold Not harden In the way you wait And don’t demand Every phrase Reaching out with open fingers Not to carve a mark Just touch my hand [Chorus] A thousand times before A thousand more That’s how real things stay In the worn-out chair The crooked floor Where you keep saying my name the same way You don’t have to change your tone For me to know you’re sure A thousand times before A thousand more You keep coming back to the living core [Bridge] You call this place By its true name Not miracle Not tragedy Just ours You answer me By returning By turning Back toward my heart [Chorus] A thousand times before A thousand more That’s how real things speak In the open hand The patient door In the small Repeated Steady streak You don’t have to promise loud To be what I’ve been waiting for A thousand times before A thousand more Say it once Then let it live In the walls Forever more
