put this on and stop coasting

Verse

There's a feeling in my chest like a thread being tugged

Like a part of me remembers what the rest of me forgot

And the more I try to settle the more the settling stops

And the quiet starts to get a little loud

I don't know where it's leading but I know I'm gonna walk

I don't know what I'm finding but I know it's mine to find

Pre-Chorus

Something says go

Something says move

Something says now

Chorus

I can feel the pull

I can feel it clear

Through the hum of every reason I had for staying here

Verse

Some folks live their whole life in a hallway with the lights down low

Never turning any handle, never wondering where it goes

And I get it, I was one of them, I know how the story slows

When you stop asking what's behind the door

But a thing inside me sharpened and it won't let me ignore

That a hallway isn't where a person grows

Pre-Chorus

Something says go

Something says move

Something says now

Chorus

I can feel the pull

I can feel it clear

Through the hum of every reason I had for staying here

Chorus

I can feel the pull

Loud and near

And I'm walking toward it now, I'm walking out of here

Verse

They told me who I was before I had a chance to know

Handed me a shape and said hey kid this is how you go

And I wore it like a jacket that was two sizes too small

And I didn't even notice that it didn't fit at all

Took a long time looking in the mirror to see

That the picture wasn't me, was a picture of me

Chorus

I am made of more

Than the room I came from

More than the lines they drew

More than the name they gave me when I was young

Verse

Every story that I lived inside was written by a hand

That didn't know my middle, didn't ask me where I'd been

And I played the part so long I forgot it was a part

Forgot the difference between the costume and the heart

But a person is a wide and quiet thing

And you can't fold a wide thing into a small ring

Bridge

Took the jacket off

Folded it slow

Set it on the chair

Said thank you, let it go

Chorus

I am made of more

Than the room I came from

More than the lines they drew

More than the name they gave me when I was young

Chorus

Made of more

Made of more

Than the name they gave me when I was young

Chorus

What's real is what you feel when nobody's watching

What's real is what you choose when it's hard

What's real is the quiet little yes inside your chest

And the rest is just the rest

Verse

I spent years chasing pictures of a life that wasn't mine

Pretty little postcards from a place I'd never been

Smiling in the photo while I crumbled underneath

Counting all the boxes and forgetting how to breathe

But a postcard isn't living and a costume isn't skin

And the second that I knew it I could finally begin

Verse

Now I'm slower, now I'm softer, now I'm closer to the bone

Saying no to half the noises I'd been calling home

And it's strange how light a body gets when you put the false stuff down

How the colors all come back when you stop turning around

There's a version of me waiting that I never let arrive

And I'm meeting her right now, and she's alive

Chorus

What's real is what you feel when nobody's watching

What's real is what you choose when it's hard

What's real is the quiet little yes inside your chest

And the rest is just the rest

Chorus

What's real

Is the yes inside your chest

And the rest is just the rest

Verse

I broke

I bent

I lost the thread for a while

Verse

I burned

I wept

I forgot how to smile

Pre-Chorus

And still

And still

And still

Chorus

I'm still here

I'm still here

Quiet as the morning

Soft as the year

Verse

I rose

I learned

I let the old name fall

Pre-Chorus

And still

And still

And still

Chorus

I'm still here

I'm still here

Quiet as the morning

Soft as the year

Chorus

Still here

Still here

Verse

Woke up Monday morning to the same old script

Same coffee, same commute, same little tightening grip

Same voice in my head saying this is just the way

Same shoulders getting heavier with every passing day

And somewhere in the middle of the same old thing

I heard a softer voice say you can choose again

Verse

You can choose the slower morning, you can choose the longer walk

You can choose to call the friend, you can choose to really talk

You can choose to drop the thing that's been killing you for years

You can choose to feel the feeling that you've been running from in fear

Every minute is a doorway, every moment is a hand

Reaching out to say hey friend, you can choose again

Pre-Chorus

And the day is long

And the day is wide

And the day is yours

Chorus

Choose again

Choose again

The road behind is closed but the road ahead is open

And you get to choose again

Verse

I'm not saying that it's easy, I'm not saying that it's quick

I'm not saying that the old voice in your head is gonna quit

But the muscle of the choosing gets a little bit more strong

Every single time you use it, every time you sing along

And one day you look up and you've been walking your own road

And the weight you used to carry isn't even yours to hold

Pre-Chorus

And the day is long

And the day is wide

And the day is yours

Chorus

Choose again

Choose again

The road behind is closed but the road ahead is open

And you get to choose again

Chorus

Choose again

The road ahead is open

And you get to choose again

Verse

Soft hands

Soft heart

Soft step on the new road

Verse

No rush

No proof

No need to be told

Pre-Chorus

I know

I know

I know

Chorus

I'm walking slow

I'm walking true

Soft hands

Soft heart

And the morning coming through

Verse

No fight

No fear

No weight on the bone

Pre-Chorus

I know

I know

I know

Chorus

I'm walking slow

I'm walking true

Soft hands

Soft heart

And the morning coming through

Chorus

Soft hands

Soft heart

And the morning coming through

Verse

There's a kind of quiet that you only find on the other side

Of a thing you were afraid of for a long long time

And it isn't loud, it isn't proud, it isn't a parade

It's just a steady little breathing in the life you made

And the fear that used to run the show is sitting in the back

And it's smaller than you thought it was, and it's losing track

Chorus

Free

Free

Not the way the movies say

Just a quiet kind of free

Verse

Used to picture freedom like a mountain or a flag

Like a moment you arrive at where you never have to bag

Up the same old fears again and carry them around

Turns out freedom is a softer and a stranger kind of sound

It's a yes you didn't have to think about, it's a no you didn't fight

It's a Tuesday in October when the room is full of light

Pre-Chorus

And the door is open

And the door was always open

And I see it now

Chorus

Free

Free

Not the way the movies say

Just a quiet kind of free

Verse

There's a person in the mirror who's been waiting all along

For the rest of me to catch up, for the rest of me to come home

And I'm here now, and I'm here now, and I'm here now, and I'm here

And the years that I was missing aren't as heavy as they were

Chorus

Free

Free

Just a quiet kind of free

Just a Tuesday and a window and a me

Verse

Underneath the noise there is a quieter sound

Underneath the running there is solid ground

Underneath the costume there is skin

Underneath the door there is the room you've never been

And I sat with it a while and I let the layers fall

Till there wasn't very much of me, and there was all of me

Chorus

Underneath

Underneath

There is a softer truer thing

And it was always underneath

Verse

I peeled away the wanting and the should and the must

Peeled away the picture of the person I thought I was

Peeled away the noises of the people in my head

Peeled away the worry of the things they might have said

And the smaller that I got the more of me I found

Like the answer was already in the ground

Pre-Chorus

Quiet

Quiet

Quiet

Chorus

Underneath

Underneath

There is a softer truer thing

And it was always underneath

Chorus

Underneath

A softer truer thing

And it was always underneath

Chorus

Hold the line

Hold the line

The one you drew yourself

The one that says this far and not a single inch behind

Verse

There's a kind of strength that doesn't look like strength at all

It's a person saying no and meaning it without a brawl

It's a quiet little fence around the things you love the most

It's a steady little candle that you keep beside the door

And the people who don't like it are the people who were used

To a softer older version that they could push around and use

Chorus

Hold the line

Hold the line

The one you drew yourself

The one that says this far and not a single inch behind

Verse

I'm not angry, I'm not bitter, I'm not closing up my heart

I'm just learning where I end and where the other people start

And the line is not a wall, it's a window with a sill

Where the love can come right through but the rest of it stays still

You can call me what you want to, you can say I've gone too far

I'm just learning who I am and learning where my edges are

Pre-Chorus

Steady

Steady

Steady on

Chorus

Hold the line

Hold the line

The one you drew yourself

The one that says this far and not a single inch behind

Chorus

Hold the line

The one you drew yourself

The one that says this far

Verse

I didn't change in a thunderclap, I didn't change in a flash

I changed in a thousand little Tuesdays that nobody asked

About or noticed or applauded or remembered at all

I changed in the smallest of decisions in the smallest of halls

And one day I looked back and I was somebody new

And I couldn't even point to when the changing got through

Pre-Chorus

Little by little

Little by little

Little by little

Chorus

That's how a river moves a mountain

That's how a morning breaks the night

Little by little

Little by little

And one day you wake up alright

Verse

Don't believe the story that the changing has to hurt

That you have to break completely just to find out what you're worth

Sometimes change is gentle, sometimes change is slow

Sometimes change is just a softer way of letting yourself grow

And the version of you waiting on the other side of this

Is gonna thank the smaller you for every little step you didn't miss

Pre-Chorus

Little by little

Little by little

Little by little

Chorus

That's how a river moves a mountain

That's how a morning breaks the night

Little by little

Little by little

And one day you wake up alright

Chorus

Little by little

Little by little

And one day you wake up alright

Verse

Bones

Breath

Beating heart

Verse

Two feet

One road

Where I start

Pre-Chorus

This is mine

This is mine

This is mine

Chorus

I am here

I am whole

I am bones and breath and a quiet little soul

Verse

No mask

No name

Just the truth

Pre-Chorus

This is mine

This is mine

This is mine

Chorus

I am here

I am whole

I am bones and breath and a quiet little soul

Chorus

Bones

Breath

A quiet little soul

Verse

Used to carry everything like every bag was made of stone

Every worry on my shoulder, every sorrow in my bones

Used to think the heavy was a sign that I was deep

That a person who was happy was a person half asleep

But the weight was never wisdom and the heavy was never true

It was just a heavy habit I was carrying through

Verse

Now I carry what I have to and I set the rest aside

Now I let the little stuff stop running my whole ride

Now I notice when a thought is just a thought and not a fact

Now I notice when a feeling comes and let it travel back

And the bag is lighter, lighter, and the road is open wide

And I'm walking like a person who is glad to be alive

Pre-Chorus

Set it down

Set it down

Set it down

Chorus

Carry it light

Carry it kind

Leave the heavy on the road behind

Carry it light

Verse

Not pretending that the hard stuff isn't hard, that the hurt is not the hurt

Not pretending that a smile is gonna fix what doesn't work

Just learning that the carrying is a choice you get to make

Just learning that a heart can hold a lot without it gonna break

And the more I practice setting down the more I get to keep

And the things I really love are easier to reach

Chorus

Carry it light

Carry it kind

Leave the heavy on the road behind

Carry it light

Chorus

Carry it light

Carry it kind

Carry it light

Verse

There's a morning when you wake up and the air just hits different

And the room you've slept in for a thousand thousand mornings is suddenly lit

With a kind of light you don't remember ever seeing in your life

And you're standing in the kitchen and you're laughing and you're crying at the sight

Of the steam above the kettle and the bird outside the glass

And the smallness and the wholeness and the moment finally landing at last

Pre-Chorus

This is it

This is it

This is it

Chorus

I'm alive

I'm alive

I am every single thing I had to lose to find

I'm alive

I'm alive

And the whole entire world is bright

Verse

There's a feeling that the years you spent asleep weren't really lost

That the every single moment of the road was worth the cost

That the version of you crying in the kitchen all those nights

Was a part of you arriving, was a part of you alive

And you wouldn't take it back, you wouldn't trade a single tear

For the standing where you're standing, for the being right here

Pre-Chorus

This is it

This is it

This is it

Chorus

I'm alive

I'm alive

I am every single thing I had to lose to find

I'm alive

I'm alive

And the whole entire world is bright

Verse

And the people in the kitchen and the people on the street

And the strangers in the windows and the strangers I will meet

Every single one of them is walking through their own

Every single one of them is finding their way home

And I love them and I love them and I don't even know their names

And I'm crying in the kitchen and I'm laughing all the same

Chorus

I'm alive

I'm alive

I am every single thing I had to lose to find

I'm alive

I'm alive

And the whole entire world is bright

Chorus

Alive

Alive

And the whole entire world is bright

Verse

After all the climbing there is somewhere you can rest

After all the running there is somewhere you can sit

After all the proving there is nothing left to prove

After all the moving there is nothing left to move

And the room is warm, and the door is closed

And the day is yours, and the world is slow

Chorus

Soft landing

Soft landing

The hardest part is over now

And you made it, and you're standing

Verse

Put your shoes beside the door, put your worries on the shelf

Put your story down a minute and just be here with yourself

There's a tea that's getting cold and there's a window getting gold

And there's nothing you have to do and nothing you have to hold

You can breathe out, you can breathe out

You can finally breathe out

Pre-Chorus

Easy now

Easy now

Easy now

Chorus

Soft landing

Soft landing

The hardest part is over now

And you made it, and you're standing

Chorus

Soft landing

Soft landing

You made it

And you're standing

Verse

I used to think the sky was just the ceiling of a room

I used to think the walls of it were holding up the moon

I used to think a person was a small and finished thing

A picture in a frame that somebody else had hung

But the frame came down, and the wall came down

And the ceiling was a sky I'd never seen

Pre-Chorus

Look up

Look up

Look up

Chorus

The whole sky

The whole sky

I was made for the whole sky

And it's open

And it's wide

And it's mine

Verse

And I think about the person I was at the very start

Walking with a heavy bag and a quiet little heart

And I want to reach back through the years and take her by the hand

And tell her every single thing is gonna land

That the breaking and the building are the same long song

And the road that feels like nowhere is the road that takes you home

Pre-Chorus

Look up

Look up

Look up

Chorus

The whole sky

The whole sky

I was made for the whole sky

And it's open

And it's wide

And it's mine

Verse

Every door I ever opened, every yes I ever said

Every no that broke my heart and every tear I had to shed

Every morning that I doubted, every night I didn't sleep

Every quiet little promise that I made and tried to keep

All of it, all of it, all of it was me

All of it was bringing me to here, to here, to here

Chorus

The whole sky

The whole sky

I was made for the whole sky

And it's open

And it's wide

And it's mine

Chorus

The whole sky

And it's mine