From a young age, I learned that life isn't always easy. I’ve had good days, bad days… and some days that nearly broke me. But I’m still here. Still breathing. Still searching. This song is a reflection on another completed orbit—another circle around the sun. It’s about the seasons I’ve lived through, the questions I still ask, and the quiet strength in simply continuing. Why are we here? What’s our purpose? Maybe I don’t have the answers yet. But I do have this moment—this song—and the awareness that I’m just one brief spark in the vast turning of time. This is for the springs I’ve returned to. For the winters I’ve survived. For every year that shaped me. And every one still to come. ✦⋆｡˚☽˚｡⋆✦✧🌟✧✦⋆｡˚☽˚｡⋆✦ I was born in the thaw, when the frost let go When the earth exhaled and the rivers flowed When green crept back across the land And the sun learned how to kiss my hands A child of renewal, of bloom and rain Of daffodils rising through softened pain One breath among a thousand springs Still wondering what this season brings Four seasons etched upon my skin I lose, I grow, I start again The world spins on, the sky won’t stay But I was born on such a day Another circle 'round the sun Another year where I’ve become A little more, a little less A question mark the stars won’t guess But I return where life began To Spring, to earth, to breath, to land And whisper to the newborn light: “I’m still here. I’m still alive.” And one day I’ll stand in winter’s hush When the trees are bare and the sky won’t rush When breath hangs heavy in the air And silver lines streak through my hair I’ll close my eyes to falling snow And wonder where the seasons go But I’ll recall that spring-born flame— A flicker still, though not the same I am dust from stars and ancient flame A flick of time, without a name The Earth has turned four billion years But I was here—I lived, I steered Around the sun, a hundred times Inside this skin, these mortal lines Yet even as I fade and pass— I was the future. I was the past. Another circle 'round the sun Another chapter, almost done But I was Spring, and I was fire I bloomed, I burned, I reached up higher So let the stars forget my face Let galaxies erase my trace But know this truth when all is spun: I was here. I was one. Another circle 'round the sun Round and round, the silence hums… One more circle… and I become. ✦⋆｡˚☽˚｡⋆✦✧🌟✧✦⋆｡˚☽˚｡⋆✦ // LYRICS © 2025 Xak Stahl // MUSIC & ARRANGEMENT © 2025 Xak Stahl // ART © 2025 Xak Stahl // ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
