Between the Dark and the Light

[singer A – Female] They said preservation was mercy. But nobody asked what happens when mercy learns your pattern. The room reloads before I leave same dim lamp, same borrowed air same thin hum behind the walls same blue light in the chair I’m caught between frames where the old light pins me down everybody woke up somewhere I stayed under the sound I’m the part they couldn’t save I’m the flaw that stayed alive calling from inside the frame trying to sound like mine [Transition] [singer B – Male] There was a time when the days felt so long. I woke up wondering what lay ahead. But I’m still here. My darkest days won’t stay forever. I’ll move through the night until I see the light again. Even when the road feels long, even when I don’t know what comes, I know a new day is waiting. I look ahead. I carry on. [Transition] [singer A – Female] She wears my almost-breathing she keeps my almost-name she smiles like nothing happened in the room that learned my pain Don’t look too long at the girl in the glass she knows what I lost but not what I am Wait... If she is the one preserved... then what am I? If she is the clean copy... why do I still cry? I moved— and it hurt, but I moved. I’m the part they couldn’t save. I’m the flaw that stayed alive. Not the girl inside the frame— the one who stepped outside. [Transition] [singer B – Male] Maybe the darkness will always be a part of me. But there is more than what I’ve left behind. I can begin again. I can believe again. I can slowly choose my own way. My darkest days won’t stay forever! I’ll move through the night until I see the light again! I look ahead! I carry on! [Transition] [singer A – Female] She is still there. I think she always will be. But today... I moved before the room remembered me.