OTHERWORLDLY [Intro] (Clean guitar • distant choir • heartbeat FX) (Oh... oh...) They told me sickness takes... But nobody told me what it gives... --- [Verse 1] There was a fire burning underneath my skin, A war I never started that I couldn't seem to win. Every dawn another piece of who I used to be, Falling like the autumn leaves surrendering the trees. My reflection grew unfamiliar every passing day, Muscle turned to memory while the colors washed away. But underneath the ashes where the dying embers slept, Something ancient woke inside the tears I'd never wept. The louder that the silence grew, the clearer I could hear, A language made of starlight whispering in my ear. The moon became a lighthouse, the wind began to pray, And every step toward darkness brought another kind of day. --- [Pre-Chorus] If this is what remains of me... Then why have I never felt so free? What if every piece I've lost... Was never really me? --- [Chorus] The weaker this body becomes, the stronger my spirit ignites, I'm climbing invisible mountains through impossible nights. You can count every scar, every pound that disappeared, But you can't count the courage replacing every fear. I'm becoming something heaven always knew I'd be, Breaking every chain that kept eternity from me. When the mirror says I'm fading, I know the truth it hides... The closer I get to forever... The brighter my soul arrives. Otherworldly... --- [Verse 2] Doctors read their numbers while the angels read my eyes, One is measuring survival, one is measuring the skies. Every breath a borrowed blessing, every heartbeat earned, Every bridge the fire destroyed became another lesson learned. I don't fear the open doorway standing at the end, I've been meeting little pieces of forever in the wind. Every stranger's simple kindness shines a little brighter now, Every sunset signs a promise only heaven could allow. Flowers growing through the pavement never ask you why, Broken things remember better how to touch the sky. Maybe all this empty space was never meant for grief... Maybe it's where miracles learn how to breathe. --- [Pre-Chorus 2] The flesh grows quiet... The soul grows loud... I'm losing weight... But gaining clouds. --- [Chorus] The weaker this body becomes, the stronger my spirit ignites, I'm dancing with constellations underneath these fading lights. You can measure blood and bone, every symptom, every scar, But you'll never cage the universe awakening in my heart. Every mile this illness steals becomes another pair of wings, Every tear becomes a river where tomorrow softly sings. I'm not vanishing... I'm changing beyond what eyes can see... I'm becoming otherworldly... I'm becoming free. --- [Bridge] (Half-time) Don't mistake surrender... For defeat... Seeds surrender to the earth... Before they become forests. Stars collapse... Before they become galaxies. The tide must leave the shore... Before it returns stronger. Maybe that's what's happening... Maybe this body is only making room... For something eternal. (Build) I can feel forever... Calling... My... Name... --- [Guitar Solo] --- [Breakdown] What illness took from flesh... The spirit filled with light. What pain carved into stone... Love answered with the sky. What fear tried to imprison... Hope broke open wide. I am not less... I am more. --- [Final Chorus – Key Change] The weaker this body becomes, the higher my spirit will soar, I've seen beyond the curtain and I don't fear it anymore. You can number all my losses, every battle that I've known, But the kingdom growing in me has become my truest home. I'm wearing constellations where my armor used to be, Trading earthly definitions for eternity's decree. When this fragile shell grows quiet, let the whole world understand... I was never just this body... I was always... The fire... Inside the man. Otherworldly! Beyond the sickness! Beyond the sorrow! Beyond the mirror! Beyond tomorrow! I'm becoming... I'm becoming... OTHERWORLDLY! (Outro: soaring "Whoa-oh-oh" harmonies over sustained guitar and piano until fade.)
