The Work Is Worth The Hours

(Verse 1 - The Rhythm of It) Some days the page comes easy, Like a window letting light. Other days it sits there quiet And refuses me outright. I’ve learned not every morning Knows what the evening will bring Some days the spark runs freely, Some days I carry nothing. (Pre-Chorus - The Pace) I used to think the quiet days Meant something had gone wrong. (Chorus - The Real Measure) But the work is worth the hours, The slow ones and the fast. The evenings spent adjusting lines That didn’t seem to last. The sparks that came in sudden waves, The days that gave me none It’s all part of the road I walk Whenever I make one. (Verse 2 - The Practice) There were moments full of motion, Where ideas rushed ahead Three songs trying to happen Before the first was said. And there were weeks of patient circling, Of testing what was true, Learning when to keep a sentence And when to start it new. (Pre-Chorus 2 - The Balance) It turns out both the silence And the noise belong here too. (Chorus - Staying With It) The work is worth the hours, The climb and the plateau. The drafts that taught me something Even when they didn’t show. The quiet cups of thinking time, The nights the lines all ran It’s all the same long practice Of becoming steadier hands. (Bridge - Honest Craft) Not every try was brilliant, Not every risk paid off. Some ideas walked beside me, Some drifted somewhere off. But every honest effort Left a mark in how I stood Little shifts in how I listen, In how I shape the good. (Final Chorus - The Bow Before the Finale) So the work is worth the hours, The restless and the still. The days the spark ran freely And the days it took some will. It isn’t only outcomes That make the effort stay It’s the life that forms around it While I work along the way.