(Intro) (Clean guitar, distant toms, warm synth pad)
One light…
One voice…
One story…
Until the walls started talking back…
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(Verse 1)
You boarded up the windows
Called it shelter from the storm
Hung certainty like portraits
Till every hallway looked the same
One candle in the tower
Claimed it knew the only way
Funny how the room grew smaller
Every time you fed the flame
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(Pre-Chorus)
You can build a throne from silence
You can build a crown from fear
But every lock you’ve ever fastened
Keeps the truth from getting near
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(Chorus)
It’s hard to see with only one light
Shadows stretch where truth should be
You don’t lose your flame by sharing
You just help the whole room see
Every lantern
Every heartbeat
Every spark against the night
We’re a little less forgotten
When we stop defending one light
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(Verse 2)
You mistook agreement for devotion
Mistook echoes for a choir
Every voice you wouldn’t listen to
Became another funeral pyre
Maps are drawn by many footsteps
Not a monument alone
Every bridge begins with someone
Walking where they’ve never gone
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(Pre-Chorus)
If every question feels like danger
If every challenge feels like theft
Maybe what you’re really guarding
Isn’t truth…
It’s what’s left.
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(Chorus)
It’s hard to see with only one light
Shadows stretch where truth should be
You don’t lose your flame by sharing
You just help the whole room see
Every lantern
Every heartbeat
Every spark against the night
We’re a little less divided
When we stop defending one light
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(Bridge) (Half-time. Spacious. Delay-soaked guitars. Let it breathe.)
The stars never asked permission
To outnumber the sun
The forest never chose one tree
To speak for everyone
The sky was never jealous
Of another dawn
Maybe hope has always looked like
A million lights…
Coming on…
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(Final Chorus) (Lift. Bigger drums. Harmonies.)
It’s hard to see with only one light
Every shadow has a name
Every heart becomes a window
When we stop protecting flames
Raise your lantern
Raise your questions
Raise the ones they left behind
No one ever lost the morning
By helping someone else find light
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(Outro) (Instrumentation falls away except piano and guitar.)
One light…
Can start a fire…
But a thousand…
Can show the way.
ChucklesMcnerd
