Sunlight Through Ice

Verse 1 They said I was burning, but I was only bending light. A prism in the heavens, too strange for ordinary eyes. I don’t come with thunder, I don’t fall like rain. I appear when the angle’s right, then disappear again. Pre-Chorus Don’t try to hold me, don’t try to name my flame. I’m not what you think you see, but I’m stunning all the same. Verse 2 I’m not fire, I’m refraction, not a warning, not a wound. Just sunlight breaking open through the ice inside the blue. You thought I was chaos, but I was physics dressed in gold. A secret of the atmosphere too delicate to hold. Pre-Chorus Don’t ask me to stay lower, don’t ask me to explain. Some miracles are only real when they’re impossible to frame. Chorus I’m only a fire rainbow, a beautiful lie in the sky. An optical illusion you can’t keep, but you can’t deny. Call me rare, call me fleeting, call me colors passing through. I’m a circumhorizontal arc, and I was never made for you. Bridge Maybe I’m the proof that beauty can confuse. Maybe I’m the truth that disappears too soon. Maybe I’m not broken, maybe I’m aligned — sunlight through the frozen places making color out of ice. Final Chorus I’m only a fire rainbow, a miracle mistaken for flame. A stunning optical illusion with a scientific name. Call me rare, call me fleeting, call me colors passing through. I’m a circumhorizontal arc, too bright to belong to you. Outro I was never burning. I was only bending light. I was never yours to capture. I was only passing by.