[Intro - old upright piano, irregular breathing] [One beautiful chord] [The next chord is wrong] [Silence] I keep trying to finish this song. But every time I reach the ending... Something changes. [Verse 1 - barely sung, fragile] There's a note I never played In a room I never left There's a child behind a curtain Holding tightly to her breath There's a letter never opened There's a name I cannot say There's a thousand little endings That refuse to go away Everyone keeps asking If I'm better than before [Silence] Better than what? And who was keeping score? [Pre-Chorus - unsteady piano] They want a pretty ending Want the suffering explained Want the broken pieces polished Till they're beautiful again They want a lesson and a blessing And a reason for the rain But what if I have questions That will never have a name? [Chorus - almost breaks into melody, then collapses] I'm beautifully unresolved Not everything gets solved Some memories keep breathing Long after we evolve I'm beautifully unresolved Still wandering these halls I didn't find the answer [Music cuts] I just stopped answering the calls. [Verse 2 - spoken over distant cello] They say time heals everything. Does it? Or does it teach you How to carry what remains? How to make dinner With a hole in your heart? How to laugh While remembering? How to love somebody Who's no longer here? How to walk past a place That still holds yesterday? [Whisper] How to be alive Without pretending you forgot? [Instrumental - piano loses the rhythm] [Verse 3 - quietly furious] I have buried expectations I have mourned imaginary days I have loved the ones who left me And the ones who couldn't stay I have carried other people When my own legs barely stood And they called me independent [Pause] Like that made the loneliness good. I have tried to build a sanctuary With my hands and with my heart But some nights even sanctuary Feels like it might fall apart [Chorus - low, dissonant harmonies] I'm beautifully unresolved Not a puzzle to be solved Not a wound for your inspection Not a lesson you've evolved I'm beautifully unresolved I don't need another test You can call it unfinished I call it What is left. [Bridge - all music stops] [Spoken, close to microphone] What if there's no revelation? No breakthrough? No moment where everybody Finally understands? What if nobody apologizes? What if the people who hurt you Never even acknowledge That you were hurt? What if they go on living Like nothing happened... And you have to go on living too? [One harsh piano note] Does that make your life meaningless? [Long silence] No. [Whisper] It means the story is still happening. [Verse 4 - nearly a lullaby] There's a little girl upstairs She doesn't want to come down Not tonight Not with all those people around So I leave a light beside her And I sit outside the door I don't tell her she's recovered I don't ask for anything more I don't promise her tomorrow Will be softer than today I just tell her If she needs me I'm not going away. [Final Chorus - incomplete melody] I'm beautifully unresolved And I'm tired of being solved Of pretending every question Has an answer after all I'm beautifully unresolved Some things never come around Some doors stay closed forever Some lost things aren't found And still... [Music dissolves] And still... [Outro - woman speaking, exhausted but gentle] I used to think I had to finish the song Before I could let anybody hear it. [Pause] Maybe I don't. Maybe you can listen While I'm still figuring out Where the notes belong. [She plays three piano notes] [The fourth is missing] [Long silence] [Whisper] I'm still playing. [An unresolved chord rings out] [End]
