[Intro] [Verse 1] The letters slipped across the threshold; I clocked the shadow 'fore it landed. The copper pipes gave up their rattling, and for once I was un-demanded. I used to wake in combat armor, jaw clenched before I hit the ground, so skilled at turning every sunrise into a threat I had to down. Today the caffeine felt redundant. The neighbor drilled into a wall. I braced for some profound disaster. There wasn't one at all. [Pre-Chorus] I thought that peace would be an earthquake, something cinematic to feel. Turns out sometimes nothing bleeds and that is also real. [Chorus] Let the sunlight in, let the sun win. I don't have to earn my breathing by surviving everything. Let the sunlight in, let the sun win. Some days don't need a battlefield they just need to begin. Oh-oh, let the sun win. [Post-Chorus] Let it in. Let it in. Let the sun win. [Verse 2] I pulled the blackout curtains wider than my paranoia lets them stay. Dust suspended in the kitchen like a galaxy on slow display. The screen went quiet for an hour. I didn't check if something broke. I watered some forgotten ivy that I'd surrendered to the smoke. Funny what the senses capture when the brain stops keeping score: the hardwood breathing underneath me, a golden fraction of the floor. [Pre-Chorus 2] I spent a lifetime using panic as a pulse to prove I was alive. Now the grid is doing nothing and somehow I survive. [Chorus] Let the sunlight in, let the sun win. I don't have to earn my breathing by surviving everything. Let the sunlight in, let the sun win. Some days don't need a battlefield they just need to begin. Oh-oh, let the sun win. [Instrumental] [Bridge] I thought peace would be a canyon trumpets, clean horizons, something grand. Turns out peace is warm dishwater and a soapy glass inside my hand. A lock I didn't double-check. A message I could answer late. A Tuesday fading into twilight without turning to escape. I was brilliant in a crisis when the walls were caving in. I'm learning there are softer metrics to prove that I exist. [Build] Pull the blackout. Leave it open. [Final Chorus] Let the sunlight in, let the sun win. I don't have to earn tomorrow by surviving everything. Let the sunlight in, let the sun win. Some lives aren't built on battlefields sometimes breathing is the win. Oh-oh, let the sun win. Let the sunlight in. Let the sun win. [Outro] The copper clicked. No disaster. Good.
