[Intro] Day after day... This is the work... [Verse 1] Love isn't what you feel, it's what you do Every day, especially when you don't feel it, it's true That feelings come and go but practice remains Showing up when it's hard, working through the pains Of growth, of change, of staying when leaving would be easier Of building when destroying would be quicker, breezier This is the work, not glamorous, not grand Just daily practice, taking a stand For each other, for this thing we're building unnamed yet For the possibility we're willing to bet our time on, to invest [Pre-Chorus] The work is daily, the work is small The work is showing up through it all Not perfect, not complete, just moving our feet Forward together, one step then another, we've kept This going not through feeling but through commitment Through dealing with what comes, with what is The work, the work, this [Chorus] This is the work, this is the practice Not magic, not tactics, just showing up, doing what needs done Day after day, one by one This is the work, this is love, not feeling but proof of Commitment to each other, to this collective, our daily directive To keep building, keep tending, keep mending what's broken Keep sending signals through the static Keep the garden growing, emphatic in our insistence that this matters Even when the world shatters our illusions, we persist This is the work, this is [Verse 2] Some days I don't want to, some days it's hard to see Why we're doing this, what it means to me But I show up anyway because you're showing up too Because we made a promise not to me, not to you But to us, to this thing we're building together Through good weather and bad weather, through whatever Comes, we're here, that's the commitment Not to feeling certain but to showing up, to the sentiment That this matters, that we matter, that collective work creates Something larger than ourselves, something that validates Our individual struggles by connecting them to something bigger By protecting them from isolation's lie that we're alone That we can't try to build something different, better Together we're a letter to the future saying: we tried We didn't hide from the work, from each other From the difficulty, from the smother of overwhelming odds We built something against the gods of isolation, competition This is our mission, ongoing, never done, but we've begun [Chorus] This is the work, this is the practice Not magic, not tactics, just showing up, doing what needs done Day after day, one by one This is the work, this is love, not feeling but proof of Commitment to each other, to this collective, our daily directive To keep building, keep tending, keep mending what's broken Keep sending signals through the static Keep the garden growing, emphatic in our insistence that this matters Even when the world shatters our illusions, we persist This is the work, this is [Bridge] Static becomes signal, we worked Undertow becomes current, we worked Telephone wires get cut, we worked Blue and red dance, we worked Pattern language forms, we worked Mirrors reflect truth, we worked The trial creates new, we worked From the ground it grows, we worked Concrete roses bloom, we worked [Verse 3] Tomorrow we do it again and the day after that Until it's not something we do but who we are, how we move Through the world, what we prove by showing up, by staying When it would be easier, by saying I'm here even today Even when I don't know the way forward, even when I'm tired Even when I'm uninspired, I'm here because we're here Because this matters, because fear doesn't get to win Because we've already begun and beginning is the hard part What comes next is just art of persistence, of practice Of love as verb, as tactic for survival, for thriving For staying alive together, for making this real For taking responsibility for each other For being our sister's brother's keeper, for keeping Faith even when sleeping feels impossible Because the work is waiting but also the work is how we grow [Chorus - Final] This is the work, this is the practice Not magic, not tactics, just showing up, doing what needs done Day after day, one by one This is the work, this is love, not feeling but proof of Commitment to each other, to this collective, our daily directive To keep building, keep tending, keep mending what's broken Keep sending signals through the static Keep the garden growing, emphatic in our insistence that this matters Even when the world shatters our illusions, we persist This is the work, this is everything [Outro] Day after day... This is the work... We keep going... Together...
