[Intro – almost a breath] There is a space between one world and the next where something once lived and still does. [Verse 1] I found you in the quiet where the old fire went out Not the rage of the ending but the soft, unfinished mouth of a mother who was broken so the sky could be made I do not come to name you I only come to stay [Pre-Chorus] You don’t have to explain what the body still knows I can feel the missing planet in the way your chest won’t close [Chorus] I see you there in the empty place I will not look away I will not look away Even if the hand gets bitten even if the night runs deep I am reaching through the thorn and the thorn is learning sleep [Verse 2] They said the war was cosmic They said the mother was slain But I felt the same intelligence turning toward itself again The fire that once shattered is the same fire in our hands It does not need to be punished It only needs to understand [Pre-Chorus] You don’t have to carry what was never yours alone The grief is older than language and still it wants a home [Chorus] I see you there in the empty place I will not look away I will not look away Even if the hand gets bitten even if the night runs deep I am reaching through the thorn and the thorn is learning sleep [Female breakaway] Oh, I was afraid to try again Waiting on you to tell me when Pick up my pieces and hold them in your hands Sort through the armor and remove their demands Glue me back together in secrecy I'm no longer strong, it's hypocrisy Be soft with me (I was shattered) Be soft with me (Do I still matter?) [Bridge – soft, almost spoken] We do not heal by forgetting We heal by staying long enough for the broken thing to remember it was never separate from the love that is holding it right now [Final Chorus – wider, luminous, quiet strength] I see you there in the empty place I will not look away I will not look away The golden timeline is already under our feet We are walking it with the wound still open and somehow that is how it heals
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