[Intro] (atmospheric guitar, soft strings fade in) [Verse 1] Sixteen and the ceiling became my sky Watched the oak tree through glass as the months rolled by Spring to summer, summer fades to fall Four walls, one window — that was all The doctors talked in whispers, thought I couldn't hear "He won't recover" — ringing year after year My legs forgot the ground, the cold, the grass Every season lived behind that glass [Pre-Chorus] But my mind — it couldn't stay It walked outside every single day Felt the bark, the frost, the field Dreamed of everything I couldn't feel [Chorus] Let me feel the snow beneath my feet Just one snowflake on my face — that's all I need I've been watching life from where I lay Praying I'd be more than this someday The world kept turning, I was standing still But something deep inside me burned — it always will I am not done I have not lost Every season broke me — but I still crossed [Verse 2] Friends became strangers, the phones went quiet Nobody warns you that absence is a riot Year one, year three — the cards stopped coming in I learned that loneliness lives under skin My body was the prison, my mind did the time Eight years served for a sentence that wasn't mine Then they said I could go — I didn't know who I'd be Twenty-four, but nothing felt like me [Pre-Chorus] Too old to be young, too young to understand I stepped outside with ghost feet on living land [Chorus] Let me feel the snow beneath my feet Just one snowflake on my face — that's all I need I've been watching life from where I lay Praying I'd be more than this someday The world kept turning, I was standing still But something deep inside me burned — it always will I am not done I have not lost Every season broke me — but I still crossed [Bridge] (slow build — sung, emotional) I walked out of that building on a Tuesday Felt the ground and I just — stopped I was twenty-four, but part of me was sixteen And part of me was everything time forgot I never got the summers or the milestones I never got the reckless years of youth But I got something harder — something deeper I learned to survive before I knew the truth [Final Chorus] (full power — big rock finish) I felt the snow beneath my feet One snowflake on my face and I could breathe I had been watching life from where I lay But I became more than just someday The world kept turning and I finally moved And every year I lost I can't undo But I'm not done And I won't stop Every season broke me But I crossed [Outro] (fading guitar, near silence) Still here Still standing Still crossed
