Verse 1
I sat there with the old weight on me
Same tight chest, same history
Same low voice saying, “Here we go”
Same dark river I thought I knew
I tried to name it, tried to breathe
Tried to loosen, tried to leave
Then all at once, without a plan
Something opened in the span
Pre-Chorus
Of one small pause
One loosened thread
One little space
Inside my head
Chorus
For a second
It was only this
Just the ache without the fist
Just the feeling, bare and bright
Not yet trapped in me tonight
For a second
The knot let go
And I saw more than what I know
I couldn’t make it, couldn’t stay
But something true had shown the way
Verse 2
Then the mind came rushing in again
With all its tools and all its spin
“How’d you do it? Do it more
Find the handle, find the door”
But grace won’t come because I shout
It enters when the grip gives out
When I stop trying to rearrange
What only opens when I change nothing
Pre-Chorus
Just let it move
Just let it be
A little less
Of “this is me”
Chorus
For a second
It was only this
Just the ache without the fist
Just the feeling, bare and bright
Not yet trapped in me tonight
For a second
The knot let go
And I saw more than what I know
I couldn’t make it, couldn’t stay
But something true had shown the way
Bridge
Not forever
Not complete
Not some final sweet release
Just a crack
A little light
In the architecture of the night
And now I know
When darkness comes
It is not one thing all at once
There’s pain, and then
There’s all the rest
The self that gathers at my chest
Final Chorus
For a second
I was not the storm
Just the sky where it had formed
Just the rain and just the sound
With no one there to hold it down
For a second
The world grew wide
And suffering lost its hard inside
Brief as breath
And gone so fast
But enough to know it cannot last
Outro
So I won’t force
What won’t be forced
I’ll leave some room
Inside the course
And when it comes
I’ll know the taste
Of one free second
Full of space
