The Thing That Keeps Me

Intro (single piano note · held string tone · fragile) Is anyone out there — or is it just the dark and me? Something in the silence answers — barely Verse 1 I've been walking through a season with no name Every direction looking like the same Grey on grey and cold inside the cold Carrying a story I was never told But there's a thread I feel when everything falls through Too thin to see — too strong to snap in two Pre-Chorus (strings enter · quiet swell · searching energy) Is there something higher than the fear? Something at the edge of disappear? A gravity that holds me to the ground — Even when I can't make out a sound — Chorus 1 (orchestral swell · defiant and yearning at once) Something higher — keeping me alive Something I can't name but know I need to survive I am cold and I am lost and I am still Choosing to believe in something higher still Something higher — pulling at the thread Between the one who rises and the one who stays in bed On my own — but not without a light — Something higher — making dark feel right Verse 2 I've stopped demanding it reveal its face The thing that holds me steady in the race Between the falling and the standing back up Between the breaking and the filling of the cup I only know it's there because I'm here And every morning is the proof against the fear Pre-Chorus 2 (full strings · brass hint · choir emerges) I believe in what I cannot see The invisible that's making something of me Every broken day was never really lost — It was just the building at a cost — Final Chorus (full orchestral peak · soaring vocal · choir full) Something higher — I believe it now Not because it's easy — but because somehow I am cold and I am lost and I am whole Something higher — living in my soul Something higher — past the fear and through Invisible but real as me and you On my own — and held by something true — Something higher — I came through Outro Something higher... the thread holds... I don't need to see it to know it's real... On my own... and held... and held...