The One Aware (The Witness Trilogy, Part I)

[Intro] I can give you my name. A word on a label. A sound people use when they want my attention. But is that me? [Verse 1] I can hand you my name like a tag on a wire Point to my past, stack the facts a little higher Job, date, face, every line I defend A pile of descriptions that break in the end I wore every title they taught me to trust Built little empires from memory and dust But none of those masks ever answered the call When the dark asked the question beneath it all [Pre Chorus] If the name is a sound and the flesh is a frame If the mind writes a script then forgets why it came If thoughts move through me like ash in the wind Then who stands watching untouched from within? [Chorus] I’m stepping out of the pulse of reaction Out of the gears of division and traction I was a mirror addicted to light Now I’m the silence that outlives the night I’m not the thunder, not pain, not the thrill I’m the wide open sky learning how to be still Cutting the cords of the noise and despair I am the one aware [Verse 2] Something would happen, I’d bend with the blow Somebody spoke and I’d become what they know I lived like a spark in a storm of demand Pulled by the weather of each passing hand Chasing results like they minted the truth Trading my center for borrowed proof Reaction is bondage dressed up as control A thief in the temple, a crack in the soul [Pre Chorus 2] So I stopped at the edge where the impulse begins Saw the machine and the loop that it spins There in the gap where the old patterns tear I found a presence already there [Chorus] I’m stepping out of the pulse of reaction Out of the gears of division and traction I was a mirror addicted to light Now I’m the silence that outlives the night I’m not the thunder, not pain, not the thrill I’m the wide open sky learning how to be still Cutting the cords of the noise and despair I am the one aware [Bridge] Wait. Look at the wave before it becomes sea. Look at the thought before it names me. Feel how the body prepares for the fall even before there is danger at all. Here is the hinge. Here is the seam. Here is the hand reaching into the dream. Pull the thread. Watch the illusion tear. Every mask falls thin as air. The sleeper is rising. The witness is there. [Final Chorus] I’m breaking out of the law of reaction Shattering every mechanical action I was a mirror that lived in the fight Now I’m the stillness that swallows the night I’m not the story, the wound, or the will I’m what remains when the noise becomes still Past every mask and each borrowed despair I am the one aware I am the one aware [Outro] No more automatic. No more borrowed fear. Only the witness quietly here. Watching the storm without needing a name. I am the one aware. I am the one aware.