[Intro - Solo Piano + Distant Strings] (single piano, slow, contemplative) (distant string section sustains, just barely audible) (no vocal yet — the music breathes) [Verse 1 - To the One Who Loves] There's a room in me Where the light bends both ways Where the love I carry Won't fit in a phrase I tried to make you small I tried to lock the door I told myself the world Could not hold what you are for But you were never wrong You were never lost You were the part of me That knew what love would cost [Pre-Chorus] And I see you now I see you whole I see you holy In the secret of my soul [Chorus] I will carry you I will carry you Every part that they said Could not live in me too I will carry you I will carry you I am not a half I am not askew I will carry you with me [Verse 2 - To the One Who Kneels] There's a room in me Where my mother's voice prays Where the words I was taught Still bend me toward grace I tried to make peace With the men who could not see That the God who made me whole Made me holy as I be But the prayer was never theirs It was always between Me and the One who knew What no man could mean [Pre-Chorus] And I see you now I see you whole I see you holy In the secret of my soul [Chorus] I will carry you I will carry you Every part that they said Could not live in me too I will carry you I will carry you I am not a half I am not askew I will carry you with me [Verse 3 - To the One Who Dies] There's a room in me Where a boy is fading slow Where the man I used to be Is letting go I tried to hold him back I tried to make him stay But the body cannot hold What the soul is on the way He laughed in afternoons He hurt the way men hurt He was good, he was tired He was sacred from his birth [Pre-Chorus - Quieter, almost spoken] And I see you now I see you whole I see you holy And I have to let you go [Bridge - Strings Swell] (strings rise to full orchestral intensity) (female choir enters — wordless sustained "ahhhh") Every part of me was always part of me Every part of me was always part of me Every part of me was always part of me (beat enters, building to drop) I cannot choose I will not choose I will not cut myself in two To make it easier for you [Verse 4 - To the One Who Is Becoming] There's a room in me Where the stars learn my name Where the silence becomes weight And the weight becomes flame I tried to be afraid I tried to call it grief But the thing that rises in me Is older than belief You are not my end You are not my fall You are the one who waited While I learned to hold it all [Final Pre-Chorus - Full Power] And I see you now I see you whole I see you holy You are the keeper of my soul [Final Chorus - Maximum Orchestral Intensity] I will carry you I will carry you Every part that they said Could not live in me too I will carry you I will carry you I am not a half I am not askew I will carry you I will carry you I will carry every room Every door, every truth I will carry you with me I will carry you with me I will carry you with me [Outro - Quiet Return] (orchestration drops back to solo piano + distant choir) (spoken, almost whispered) I am the desire and the prayer I am the man and the god I am the one who stays And the one who walks on (piano holds final chord) (single sustained female "ahhhh" — fading) I am whole. I am walking. I am here. (silence)
