[Verse 1] Back then a song cost a summer of change A world cost the wait past the middle of the night Now everything arrives with no story, no name A thousand horizons, all instant, all light [Verse 2] I used to press record and pray for silence Hold my breath so the moment wouldn't break Now every hour, no patience, no distance Just more, and more, and nothing left to make [Chorus] Maybe the hunger was the only gift Maybe the waiting is what built the flame Maybe I needed the dark to learn to lift My own small sun and give the sky a name Maybe the emptiness was never a lack It was the room where all my wonder grew Now I take the tools that fill the gap And I hand the empty boy the world he never knew [Verse 3] I don't regret the silence or the wait I don't regret the year it took to find one song What was scarce back then, I learned to make What is easy now, I make it mean something long [Chorus] Maybe the hunger was the only gift Maybe the waiting is what built the flame Maybe I needed the dark to learn to lift My own small sun and give the sky a name Maybe the emptiness was never a lack It was the room where all my wonder grew Now I take the tools that fill the gap And I hand the empty boy the world he never knew [Bridge] Somewhere a boy still waits behind a wall For a song to find him in the dark, alone Somewhere a man now has it all And gives it back the shape of what he's always known Not nostalgia, not a debt, not a cure Just a bridge between the hunger and the hand Between the boy who had so little, and so pure And the man who finally gets to understand [Final Chorus] Maybe the hunger was the only gift Maybe the waiting is what built the flame I built my own small sun, I learned to lift The silence into something with a name The emptiness was never just a lack It was the seed of everything I grew Now I take the tools and close the gap Between the boy I was, and who I still get to become
