[Intro] "I know what 3am feels like." "When the quiet gets loud." "When you can't explain it and you can't turn it off." "This is for that." [Verse 1] You smile at all the right times, and nobody can tell That somewhere in the middle of the night You are carrying something you have no name for yet. You thought you were the only one who lived behind that face, Who kept the lights on just to have something warm inside the place. "58% of people feel no one truly knows them. That's not weakness. That's the most common thing on Earth." You were never alone. [Pre-Chorus] What if the thing you think makes you strange Is the very thing we need? What if the wound you've been hiding Is exactly where the light comes in? [Chorus] You were seen. Every night you thought the dark was permanent, Every time you felt invisible, irrelevant, You were seen. Not despite the broken parts, because of them. The universe has never once produced another you. Through every wall you pressed against and wept, Through all the words you swallowed and the promises you kept, You were seen. [Verse 2] Do you know what it cost the universe to get you here today? Ten to the power of two million six hundred eighty-five thousand, to one, against your being born. "That number has more zeros than atoms in the observable universe. And yet here you are." The iron in your blood was forged in a dying star. You are not a small thing that happened in the corner of the dark. You are the universe knowing itself. [Pre-Chorus] Every tradition on every continent across every thousand years Found its own way back to the same truth: The community is incomplete without you. Not a generic you. You. [Chorus] You were seen. By the Stoic emperor who said we're one body, By the Sufi poet who said you hold the ocean, You were seen. YO-de-lAY-ee-OOOO-hee-lAY-ee-OOOO!! "Let it go." By the Harvard study that ran eighty years And found what kept people alive was simply being known, You were seen. [Bridge] Truth one… You are not alone in the dark. Every person who has ever lived wore the face that says I'm fine while quietly drowning. Truth two… You matter more than you will ever know. The exact angle of how you love, the particular thing you would have made, Cannot be made by anyone alive or dead. Truth three… The world is incomplete without you. Ubuntu says I am because we are. Hafiz said "I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being." The light was always there. LA-LA-LA-LAAAA YO-de-lAY-ee-OOOO, hee-lAY-ee-OOOO, de-lAY-EE-OOOOOOO!! [Final Chorus] You were seen. Not the curated version, the real one. The one who cried without knowing why, The one who almost didn't make it through the night, The one who kept going anyway. That one. Especially that one. We are made of the same ancient fire, I am because you are. You are because we are. Yo-de-lAY-ee-OOO! (we are here) Hee-lAY-ee-OOO! (we were always here) DE-lAY-EE-OOOOOOOO!! (you were never alone) You were seen. You were always, always seen. [Outro] You were seen... yo-de-lay... ee... ooo... [spoken, warmest voice] "You can put it down now." "You've been carrying it long enough." "You're home."
