[Verse 1] She was twenty-six with a secretary's hands And a one-way ticket to a distant land No degree, no permission, just a notebook and a pen And a feeling that the forest wanted telling [Pre-Chorus] Everybody talking Nobody hearing a thing She sat down in the green And waited [Chorus] Still listening When the world moved on to louder things Still listening To the ones who couldn't speak She sat so still the wild forgot to hide Still listening Long after we stopped trying [Verse 2] She watched their hands reach out like ours And wrote their grief down like it mattered The whole academy laughed and laughed She gave them sixty years of sitting still [Pre-Chorus] Everybody measuring Missing what was right in front of them She held her ground And waited [Chorus] Still listening When the world moved on to louder things Still listening To the ones who couldn't speak She sat so still the wild forgot to hide Still listening Long after we stopped trying [Bridge] A hand extended to the wild And something reached back down The textbooks fell like leaves around her But the forest stood its ground If devotion is a science Her data was just showing up [Final Chorus] Still listening When the headlines chased the next bright thing Still listening To the whisper underneath She sat so still the whole world leaned in close Still listening She taught us how to hear [Outro] Still listening The canopy remembers
