[Verse 1: Riveting chest-splitting male vocalist, riveting, loud, heavy kick under strings] Metronome on the table like a heart that would not quit Sixty clicks a minute while she flexed a stubborn wrist Doctor said be patient, she said patience is a cage I wrote bars between the clicks to give the silence a shape Tape around her fingers, rosin dust across the floor She would stop and start and swear and then come back for more I was not the surgeon, I was just the other chair Counting every open string like a ladder into air [Hook: Riveting chest-splitting male vocalist, loud, riveting, belted] Open string means you are back One note and the whole room cracks Therapy in public now Open string, take a bow [Verse 2: Riveting chest-splitting male vocalist, riveting, warmer, still loud] We built a verse in that small room that nobody had heard Half a prayer and half a dare and every stubborn word She would nod when it was right and shake her head when not I learned to write for someone who was fighting for a shot Nights she could not hold the bow I held the quiet for us both Days she found a clean note I would shout it down the road Love is not a soft thing when a hand has to relearn Love is counting clicks until the music can return [Hook: Riveting chest-splitting male vocalist, loud, riveting, belted] Open string means you are back One note and the whole room cracks Therapy in public now Open string, take a bow [Verse 3: Riveting chest-splitting male vocalist, bow cue, riveting, climbing strings alone then crash] Stage light on her shoulder, board is holding for her cue Band falls to the strings alone, the whole room leaning too One open string, long and clear, the note we almost lost Heavy kick and wide snare crash, I step in on the cost Verse we wrote in therapy now breathing in the hall Every click that built her hand is ringing through us all [Bridge: Riveting chest-splitting male vocalist, loud, riveting, strings climbing] Not a miracle, a drill Not a soft song, a will Open, open, open, now She is back, I know how [Hook: Riveting chest-splitting male vocalist, loud, riveting, belted] Open string means you are back One note and the whole room cracks Therapy in public now Open string, take a bow [Outro: Riveting chest-splitting male vocalist, soft then firm, climbing strings ring out and fade] Click stops She plays [End]