HERO’S JOURNEY IV - CROSSING LINES

[Intro – low tone, weight, no rush] There’s a line… Once you cross… You don’t return the same [Verse 1] It didn’t come like revelation No light breaking through the sky Just a weight I couldn’t carry And a truth I couldn’t hide Every part of me was shifting Everything I knew was thin Like the life I built around me Wasn’t where I should have been [Laura – distant but steady] You feel it now… [Verse 2] I stood between two different worlds One I knew and one unseen One was safe and fully written One was something in between There was no one there to guide me No direction I could prove Just a moment asking everything In what I choose to lose [Pre-Chorus] No way forward without cost No new path without a loss [Chorus] I crossed a line I can’t erase Gave it all and walked away Everything I knew before Doesn’t hold me anymore No return to who I was No retreat to what it was Every step beyond this place Is a step I can’t replace [Laura – closer, calm] You chose it… [Verse 3] I laid it down without a witness No one saw and no one knew What it takes to leave behind you Everything that once was you Not for answers, not for glory Not for something I could see But because I felt it calling Something deeper inside me [Bridge – cinematic lift, spiritual weight] If this path leads into nothing Then I walk it all the same If it breaks me, if it strips me Still I answer to the flame No more standing on the surface No more living half-defined If I lose the world I lived in Then I’ll find what’s truly mine [Chorus – heavier, more grounded] I crossed a line I can’t undo There was nothing left to choose Every tie I held before Fell away behind the door No return, no in-between No more what I might have been Only forward through the unknown Only truth to stand upon [Outro – quiet, final] There’s no going back… [Laura – very close, almost beside you] Now you begin…