The Kind Side of the World

[Verse 1] I was born already halfway gone Somewhere softer than the news, than the noise I built a house of light before the dawn And filled it up with better kinds of voice [Verse 2] They tell me stories of the wolf, the blade I turn the page before the wolf appears I'd rather walk a garden slightly frayed Than count the teeth of thirty thousand years [Chorus] I live on the kind side of the world Where the monsters stay behind the frame I choose the version softly blurred Over the one that knows every name I live on the kind side of the world It isn't blindness — it's where I stay warm [Verse 3] They say I'm made of paper, made of air That I never learned to hold a knife I say I simply chose which weight to bear I built my calm on purpose, like a life [Chorus] I live on the kind side of the world Where the monsters stay behind the frame I choose the version softly blurred Over the one that knows every name I live on the kind side of the world It isn't blindness — it's where I stay warm [Bridge] Some need the dark to prove that they can stand it I need the light to prove that light exists Some carry armor, call it being honest I carry wonder, call it how I persist Maybe I'm alone more than I say Maybe the quiet gets a little loud But give me people, and I'll talk all day I'm just a storm that only rains when found [Final Chorus] I live on the kind side of the world Some call it soft, I call it choice I keep the version gently blurred And trust the good in every voice I live on the kind side of the world Not hiding — just where I belong