Bit by Bit

Verse 1 I kept expecting thunder A banner in the sky A sudden understanding Of the reasons that I try But every day looked ordinary The ceiling and the floor The kind of change you can't describe Till you're not the same anymore Pre-Chorus Nothing moved for weeks Nothing seemed to bend But somewhere underneath it Something learned to mend Chorus Every little action casts a vote For the person I become Not a headline, not a miracle Just another quiet one And the days stack up like pages That I swore I'd never write 'Til I look back and find a stranger Walking softly through my life Verse 2 I used to chase the finish line Like it could make me whole Now I'm learning how to trust The rhythm of a smaller goal A single step repeated A sentence every night A promise kept when no one sees Can slowly change the light Pre-Chorus The room stayed cold for ages No evidence of spring Then all at once the frozen parts Remembered how to sing Chorus Every little action casts a vote For the person I become Not a headline, not a miracle Just another quiet one And the days stack up like pages That I swore I'd never write 'Til I look back and find a stranger Walking softly through my life Bridge Maybe I was measuring The wrong kind of success Looking for applause instead of proof Inside the emptiness Maybe all the answers Were never far away Just hidden in the tiny things I chose to do each day Final Chorus Every little action casts a vote For the person I become And the future isn't waiting there It's built from where I'm standing from No fireworks above me No grand design in sight Just a thousand small decisions Turning slowly into life Outro Tomorrow won't arrive at once It enters bit by bit And who I am is written down In every habit that I keep