The Same But Different Within [Chorus] I slipped out soft through the light through the skin Past the little locked room I had once lived in And the whole wide world wore a different face Same old road, same old sky, but a holier place Light through the skin and the veil turned thin Till the stars felt close as the blood within What I thought was mine was the whole sky’s song And I knew in that moment we’d been one all along ⸻ [Verse 1] It began with a hush in the back of the room A blue kind of breathing, a low velvet bloom Had a folded bit of daylight resting under my tongue Then the walls leaned back like the night had begun The lamp had a halo, the chair had a soul The silence was pouring like tea from a bowl Then the floor lost weight and the air turned wide And I watched my body sitting from the other side Not with fear, not with grief, not with panic or pain Just a strange kind of mercy falling warm as rain Like the world I had touched with my hands every day Was the same old world, but the mask fell away ⸻ [Chorus] I slipped out soft through the light through the skin Past the little locked room I had once lived in And the whole wide world wore a different face Same old road, same old sky, but a holier place Light through the skin and the veil turned thin Till the stars felt close as the blood within What I thought was mine was the whole sky’s song And I knew in that moment we’d been one all along ⸻ [Verse 2] I floated above like a note in the dub While the moon poured silver in a slow rising flood Every rooftop shimmered, every tree spoke low Every window held a fire that I somehow knew There were galaxies hiding in a puddle of rain Little suns in the gravel, old gold in the pain And the people below in their worry and pace All carried the same hidden light in their face Then I saw the mountains breathing into the plain Saw the rivers remember every drop by name Saw the wind move through pine like a hymn without end And it all felt closer than my oldest friend ⸻ [Hook] A little ribbon of morning on the back of my eyes A paper-thin border where the many unify I don’t need to say it, let the quiet heads know There’s a sea under the surface everywhere we go ⸻ [Verse 3] Then the room became a lantern and the night turned clear Every sorrow I had carried lost its edges there Not because it vanished, not because it lied But because I saw the cosmos on the other side Saw my fear like a coat I could lay down at last Saw my name like smoke from a season now passed Saw my body like a doorway, not a cage, not a wall Just a beautiful vessel for the one life in us all And the strange little ache I had worn like a chain Turned to stained glass color in a soft sweet rain Every wound was a window, every loss was a seam Where the infinite stitched light through the cloth of the dream ⸻ [Bridge / Dub Space] Was I in the ceiling? (Echo: “the ceiling…”) Was I in the blue? (Echo: “the blue…”) Why the whole world felt like it was looking back too? (Echo: “back too…”) Was it in the stillness? (Echo: “the stillness…”) Was it in the flame? (Echo: “the flame…”) Why did every living thing sound the same beneath the name? (Echo: “beneath the name…”) No far… (Echo: “no far…”) No near… (Echo: “no near…”) Just one breath wearing ten thousand forms appearing here (Echo: “appearing here…”) ⸻ [ Chorus] I slipped out soft through the light through the skin Past the little locked room I had once lived in And the whole wide world wore a different face Same old road, same old sky, but a holier place Light through the skin and the veil turned thin Till the stars felt close as the blood within What I thought was mine was the whole sky’s song And I knew in that moment we’d been one all along ⸻ [ Outro] Now I walk back home through the ordinary glow Past the cars and the porches and the people I know But the light hits different and the air feels wise Like the universe left fingerprints behind my eyes So when the days get heavy and the world feels torn I remember that night when the second sight was born And I soften my step, cause I know what’s true The same vast light in me is shining in you
