[Intro, sparse piano, single notes] [breath] [whisper] ("ain't no sunshine...") [Verse] Ain't no sunshine if they're cold to me, but I do it alone — I didn't need your help. [breath] Ain't no warmth in a room full of "we," when the "we" was just a mirror of yourself. ("yourself...") You handed me the dark and called it care, I learned to see in rooms you wouldn't share. I know, I know, I know — I grew the light I begged you to be. [whisper] ("I know...") [Pre-Chorus, building] And maybe that's the gift inside the cold: [crescendo] I stopped waiting to be told... [Chorus] Ain't no sunshine if they're cold to me, so I became the morning that I need. ("I need") I did it alone, didn't need your hand, the pain of yesterday is the man I am. [whisper] ("the man I am...") Ain't no sunshine — but I'm not afraid, I carry my own light through every shade. ("every shade") [Bridge, almost spoken, fragile] [breath] They were cold so long I thought that cold was love. ("was love...") But you can't freeze a fire that learned to burn enough. [slow crescendo] I don't need their sunshine — I am where it's from. ("I am where it's from") [Outro, piano softens] [whisper] ("ain't no sunshine...") [breath] ...but I made my own. [whisper] ("I did it alone... I did it alone.") [single note, fade]
