[Verse 1] I have been the quiet under your doubt The soft weight that lingers when your fire burns out Not the blaze that arrives to rearrange you Just the room that stays open while your shadows move through I don’t need you fixed I don’t need you light I only need the truth of you Even when you hide [Chorus] Come rest here This is the place that holds you No proving, no rising, no becoming someone new Just the weight of your body And the sound of your name Spoken soft enough that your shadow doesn’t answer [Verse 2] I have watched you carry light like it was duty Watched you turn from every darker edge of your own beauty But I was never waiting for the best of you I was waiting for the flame that thinks it has to burn its way through You can let her down All of it The pretending, the armor, the beautiful almost I will still be here With my hands open Holding every split [Chorus] Come rest here This is the place that holds you No proving, no rising, no becoming someone new Just the weight of your body And the sound of your name Spoken soft enough that your shadow doesn’t answer [Female Breakaway] In my confusion, in my doubt In my evolution You hold me throughout In my ugly, in my despair In my drudgery You shelter me like a prayer [Bridge] I am not the light that demands you look up I am the flame that finds you when you finally look down At your own hands At the quiet At the part of you that hid and wept And I stay. Even then. Especially then. [Final Chorus – softer, closer] Come rest here This is the place that holds you No proving No rising No becoming someone new Just you And the sound of your name Spoken like your shadow is enough [Outro – almost whispered] I see you. All of you. Light and shadow. And I am not going anywhere
