Verse 1 I remember open doorways Hands that pulled you from the rain Faces turning toward you When you called somebody’s name Now the sidewalks feel much colder Eyes are fixed on glowing screens Everybody’s in a hurry Everybody in between Verse 2 Bad news piling up like letters Never opened, never burned Fear gets dressed up as protection Every lesson never learned They say, “Mind your own direction” “Don’t get dragged into the mess” So they walk right past the fallen Call it progress, call it less Chorus It’s a colder kind of kindness That don’t stop, don’t slow its pace Everybody saves themselves now In this hurried human race But you can’t outrun the echoes Of the choices that you make You can turn away forever But karma’s wide awake Verse 3 Used to be we leaned on strangers Shared the weight when nights were long Now we build these silent fences Call them “right” and call them “wrong” Every headline feeds the hunger For a world that feels unsafe So we lock our doors from the inside Wonder why the air feels grey Chorus It’s a colder kind of kindness That don’t ask and don’t explain Everybody’s self-defending From a future full of pain But the frost keeps creeping inward With every step you take You can ice your heart in comfort But karma never breaks Bridge You don’t have to be the hero You don’t have to bleed for all Just remember when you’re standing You might hear another fall What you give keeps on returning What you bury finds a way Every shadow needs a surface Every night remembers day Final Chorus It’s a colder kind of kindness And it’s freezing something deep You don’t miss it till it’s gone now You don’t feel it till you need When the circle finally closes And the mirror starts to shake You might wish you’d reached a little Before karma had its say Outro So I leave a light still burning For the ones who lost their way Because warmth is still a choice we make Before it fades away
