Verse 1 I learned to smile with shaking hands Like if I stayed calm, the walls would stand Everyone said, “you’re doing fine” So I wore their hope like borrowed light But some nights the floor bends underneath And silence gets too loud to sleep There’s a war my body won’t explain Just echoes running through my veins Pre-Chorus And I hate the way the mirror looks at me now Like it knows something I still can’t say out loud Chorus Today the air feels heavier than stone Like my shadow’s learning how to walk alone I keep reaching for the life I knew But my hands pass through it like smoke through a room And I know the sun still waits somewhere behind this grey But right now all I feel is everything changing shape I’m still here Still fighting Even when the lights blur thin With all this static under my skin Verse 2 I used to run without hearing clocks Now every stairway makes me stop I never wanted fragile bones Never wanted to negotiate with my own soul Everybody says, “just take your time” Like slowing down won’t change my mind But grief arrives in quiet ways In all the things I cannot do the same Pre-Chorus And God, I miss the person I was before When breathing didn’t feel like bracing for war Chorus Today the air feels heavier than stone Like my shadow’s learning how to walk alone I keep reaching for the life I knew But my hands pass through it like smoke through a room And I know the sun still waits somewhere behind this grey But right now all I feel is everything changing shape I’m still here Still fighting Even when the lights blur thin With all this static under my skin Bridge Maybe strength was never shouting loud Maybe it’s surviving days like now Maybe healing doesn’t mean undone Maybe broken things still face the sun Outro So if tomorrow hurts less, I’ll take that win One quiet breath at a time again And if the world keeps turning strange and slow I’ll learn the weight of what I cannot control Still here Still breathing Even when the dark settles in With all this static under my skin