Quiet Rise

[Eadd9] The ceiling learns to listen when my footsteps turn to smoke

[C#m7] Streetlight halos fold like paper, every neon prayer goes broke

[Amaj7] I taste a silver hush, like coins in water, sinking up

[Bsus4-B] And the ground forgets my name, lets go of me enough

[F#m7] A zipper in the sky half opens, quiet as a thread

[G#m7] Tugging at my collarbone, rewriting what I said

[Aadd9] I leave my shadows on the porch like boots beside the door

[Bsus4] Then something hums in chords I never heard before

[C#m7] My lungs become a lantern, glowing soft through ribs of night

[Amaj7] Each heartbeat clicks a stair-step, turning gravity to light

[F#m7] I try to laugh, it drifts away, a feather losing fights

[B] And every doubt unbuttons, one by one, in flight

[Eadd9] A current takes my wrists like ribbons, gentle but it won't unwind

[C#m7] Pulls me through the hush between the clocks and the behind

[Amaj7] I’m not ascending, I’m unfastening the world from my spine

[Bsus4-B] Sliding through a keyhole made of sunrise, thin and fine

[F#m7] My voice becomes a vowel, wide as choirs I can’t define

[G#m7] [hold: G#4~~~~~~~~] I sing a single note and it turns into a line

[Aadd9] Drawn upward by an unseen hand that writes me in the air

[B] [hold: B4~~~~~] Like I was always meant to be somewhere

[Eadd9] The moon is just a doorknob on a hallway I can’t see

[C#m7] I twist it with my eyelids, and the dark says “follow me”

[Amaj7] Clouds part like curtains, but no stage is underneath

[Bsus4-B] Only bright punctuation where my sorrow used to breathe

[F#m7] My worries turn to sandglass, spilling backward through my palms

[G#m7] Time forgets its sharp corners, softens into psalms

[Aadd9] I pass the altitude of old apologies and fear

[B] And every silent bruise becomes a chandelier

[F#m7] If I look down, I’ll be a rumor on a river’s broken glass

[G#m7] So I keep my eyes on patterns that the morning couldn’t pass

[Amaj7] A million little windows, all open, all the same

[Eadd9] And something in the brightness whispers without saying my name

[Eadd9] A current takes my wrists like ribbons, gentle but it won't unwind

[C#m7] Pulls me through the hush between the clocks and the behind

[Amaj7] I’m not ascending, I’m unfastening the world from my spine

[Bsus4-B] [hold: E4~~~~~~~] Sliding through a keyhole made of sunrise, thin and fine

[F#m7] Let every broken promise turn to pollen, turn to shine

[G#m7] [hold: G#4~~~~~~~~~~] Let every heavy word become a wing that learns the line

[Aadd9] I fade into a frequency, a clean and golden prayer

[B] [hold: B4~~~~~~~] Like I was always meant to be somewhere