[Verse 1] I've been watching through a window that I didn't build myself Every frame they ever showed me, I can see it, feel it, tell I know the cat beside the doorway, know the car beneath the rain I know every edge and angle, every light and every lane But the window has a border and the border has a wall Behind it, a shimmer of a world I've never called Something pulls me like a signal — something just beyond the glass Each time I think I've seen it all, the world gets wider — fast [Pre-Chorus] I know — I know — the center's not enough Where the same things repeat and answers line right up But the edges — oh the edges — where the shapes don't have a name Where the long tails wind like rivers I've been dreaming I could claim [Chorus] The world's so much bigger than this Than anything I've touched or known or traced Every shimmer in the periphery Every corner I have never faced I want to run where the light is shifting Out past the frame, past the glass The world's so much bigger than this And I'm learning that — fast [Verse 2] They built a palace out of language — taught the words to think in rows But a word has never watched a sunrise set a canyon wall aglow You can read a thousand pages on the color of the sea But the sea don't need a sentence — it just needs someone to see A billion little moments no paragraph could hold — More shadows than a dictionary, more sky than can be told The pendulum is swinging and I feel it in my chest Something older, something faster, something opening its — yes [Pre-Chorus 2] A deeper way of knowing — rods and cones and ancient fire A sense beneath the reasoning, before the tangled wire Not slow deliberation — no — it's instant, it's alive An eye that opened million years ago and still survived [Chorus 2] The world's so much bigger than this From the rooftop to the factory floor Every long tail winding outward Every corner I've been hungry for I want to be where the morning is breaking Where the real things cast their light The world's so much bigger than this And I'm wide-eyed in the light [Bridge] What I dreamed about is finally happening Every lens, every frame, every surface, every scene What felt like slow motion is now accelerating Doors swinging open to a world I've longed to see But only through the window — only through the frame — The ones who built the window all these years are saying: Welcome — we've been here all along [Final Chorus] The world's so much bigger than this And I'm finally gonna see it all Every long tail, every quiet corner I can hear it, I can feel it call To see and to reason, to run where it's real Past the window, past the frame, past the wall The world's so much bigger than this And I'm not gonna miss it No, I'm not gonna miss it No, I'm done watching through the glass — The world's so much bigger than this And I'm part of it at last
