Story: The Dog Who Needed No Explanation
Verse 1
I came through the doorway
with a story in my throat
a hundred explanations
and a heart that couldn’t float
I was ready for the questions
I was ready for the blame
I was carrying a folder
with the evidence of my name
Then you leaned against my body
with your old and greying head
you didn’t ask who started it
or what somebody said
you didn’t need the details
you didn’t take a side
you just gave the tears a doorway
with your breathing at my side
Chorus
Nothing to explain to you
nothing to defend
no image I must carry
no argument to end
nothing to explain to you
no perfect words to find
love can move without permission
when the guard steps from the mind
Touch and warmth
fur and skin
nothing shut
nothing let in
just the heart without a plan
nothing to explain
Verse 2
With people comes the history
every role and every scar
the one I was expected to be
the one they think I are
the wish to be understood again
the fear they’ll turn away
the body starts preparing
for the trial before they say
The chest becomes a fortress
the jaw becomes a gate
the throat begins rehearsing
how to prove I’m good and straight
and underneath the armour
something tender waits unseen
not absent, not extinguished
only guarded in between
Chorus
Nothing to explain to you
nothing to defend
no image I must carry
no argument to end
nothing to explain to you
no perfect words to find
love can move without permission
when the guard steps from the mind
Touch and warmth
fur and skin
nothing shut
nothing let in
just the heart without a plan
nothing to explain
Bridge
You did not give me softness
you did not make me whole
you only asked no question
of the trembling animal
and in the space of no demand
the guarded body knew
the openness was already here
it did not come from you
So I will not blame the armour
or force the heart to show
protection learned its purpose
in the only way it knows
but now I see what waits beneath
when danger is not near
a love that needs no story
a warmth that needs no fear
Verse 3
I called my sister later
and the old defences came
she tried to be the wounded one
I tried to be the saint
then somewhere in the middle
we heard the roles appear
two frightened people holding
what they needed others to hear
We didn’t solve the history
we didn’t heal it all
but for a breath the images
grew softer on the wall
and underneath the argument
beneath the need to win
the same unguarded tenderness
was quietly breathing in
Final Chorus
Nothing to explain to you
nothing to defend
no image I must carry
no argument to end
nothing to explain to you
no perfect words to find
love can move without permission
when the guard steps from the mind
Touch and warmth
hand and skin
nothing forced
nothing let in
just the heart without a plan
nothing to explain
Outro
The animal shows the opening
the human shows the guard
one makes softness easy
one shows why it has been hard
Neither one is wrong
neither one to blame
love was always moving
beneath the defended name
Nothing to prove
nothing to gain
nothing to explain
