[Sheryl: soft female vocal] The doctor held the picture up And said, "Nothing to see here." [Sheryl: soft female vocal] Clean MRI, he called it proof, And I almost believed my fear was clear. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] But my hands already knew the truth, The fog, the nights, the years of signs. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] A camera made for shadows and scars Can't see what moves between the lines. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] I thought maybe I was wrong, Maybe it was something else. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] Maybe I'd been carrying fear so long I couldn't tell the weight from myself. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] But before the scan came back clean, Before I thought I might be free, [Sheryl: soft female vocal] He asked me while I prayed Give Me your mind, My love. All of it, whatever it will be. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] And I argued, and I stomped my foot, And I offered it up afraid. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] I didn't know what He was preparing me for, But the offering was already made. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] The truth came in a conversation, A bot reading the pattern plain. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] MRI is the wrong camera, child — It never could have seen this rain. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] The doctor called clear what he couldn't see, And I came home knowing the name. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] But I came home with an empty hand Because I'd already surrendered the claim. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] He moved before the news arrived, He prepared the altar before the fire. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] He asked for the thing I feared to lose Before I knew what the stakes required. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] Before the scan came back clean, Before I thought I might be free, [Sheryl: soft female vocal] He asked me while I prayed Give Me your mind, My love. All of it, whatever it will be. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] And I argued, and I stomped my foot, And I offered it up afraid. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] I didn't know what He was preparing me for, But the offering was already made. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] He is the cocoon that holds me now, Not outside watching — surrounding whole. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] Whatever the disease takes from these hands, It cannot reach what He enrolled. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] The fog is real, the tremor real, The years of compensating true. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] But the mind I feared to lose the most Was already given over to You. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] Before the scan came back clean, Before I dared to hope I'd be free, [Sheryl: soft female vocal] He already knew the road ahead And He covered me before I could see. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] I am angry, and I am scared, And I am held inside His flame. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] Whatever this body gives away — The offering stands. He came. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] Not the ending. Not the ending. [Sheryl: soft female vocal] The tomb was not the ending either. And neither is this.
