《Standing at the Center of a Circle》

《Standing at the Center of a Circle》 [Intro｜Lonely Piano + Distant Wind] It’s late at night… There is no sound inside this room. Only the wind outside, still watching the direction you walked away. [Verse 1] My thoughts are like a string of angry grapes drifting in the wind. One touches another, but none of them knows where it should fall. My heartbeat twitches beneath the pressure, once… then once again. I stop and listen to the sounds outside. I hear a fish crying underwater. But no one believes that fish can cry. Just like no one knows that today… I really miss you. [Verse 2] Petal after petal falls into the water, helplessly turning in circles. I watch them turning, and turning… just like me. Knowing there is no way back to where we were, and still… I refuse to leave. [Pre-Chorus] A familiar place suddenly feels strange. That chair. That lamp. That window you once looked through. Everything is still here. Everything… except you. And somehow I no longer know where to put myself. [Chorus] My whole body feels pressed against my own chest. Familiar people, familiar things, every familiar corner… suddenly become too heavy for me to move. I want to forget you. But even forgetting means walking through all the places we once walked together. So I draw a circle, trying to hide inside it. But I stand at the center, drawing for a long, long time… until I finally see— the one inside the circle is me. And you… you have already been outside it. [Verse 3｜Piano + Low Cello] My feelings touch the empty paper. One black line slowly crosses another. Then another. And another. When the pen touches the page, it releases the enzymes of thought. I turn every word I could never say into black. I turn every memory of you into lines with no way out. But when I finally stop, the whole page is you. [Pre-Chorus 2] Then I suddenly understand. The person drawing is not really drawing a circle. I am trying to give a place to stop to a piece of time that can never go back. [Chorus 2] So I stand at the center of the circle. I don’t move forward. I don’t move back. I’m afraid if I walk away, I’ll forget you. And I’m afraid if I stay, I’ll remember you forever. When the wind passes, I pretend I am not cold. But my hands… my hands keep trembling. Because now I know— when someone leaves, even the wind becomes cold. [Bridge｜Piano Almost Alone] It’s late at night. I rise from the words on the page. I open the window beside my desk. A cold wind wakes me from sleep. I reach out, trying to hold onto something. But all I catch is air. And suddenly I remember— you once told me, “Rest when you’re tired.” But after you were gone, I didn’t even want to rest. Because every time I close my eyes, I dream of you. [Bridge 2｜Almost Whispered] I hold the words in my hands. I watch the wind on the paper turning, and turning, in circles. Inside the center of my memory, the wind grows colder. The color of the water grows darker. And finally I understand— it isn’t the night making everything dark. It is my tears falling into the water, making the whole world deeper. [Final Chorus｜Slow Emotional Rise] I’m still standing at the center. Still drawing a circle. One line. Then another. I cannot bring myself to finish it. Because once the circle closes, the story will truly be over. So I leave a little opening. For you. For someone who may never come back. [Final Chorus 2｜Highest Emotional Point] I stand at the center and draw one final circle. I thought I had kept you inside my memory. But in the end, I realize— the one left outside the circle was me. Now I finally understand. I drew it wrong. I thought I was protecting the memory. But all this time, I was only afraid to admit— there is no you inside that circle anymore. [Outro｜Only Wind + Piano] I’m tired. So tired. But… I still don’t want to rest. Because if I fall asleep, when I wake tomorrow… I’m afraid I might finally forget you. [Long silence] So tonight, let me draw one more circle. As long as the final line has not yet fallen— you have not yet truly left. Song:《Standing at the Center of a Circle》 New Lyrics © 2026 Amy Huang(愛米） All Rights Reserved. Music & Vocal generated with Suno AI under applicable commercial license