[Intro]
It’s quiet now…
Why does quiet feel so strange?
[Verse 1]
I got good at reading shadows
Listening for closing doors
Learned to sleep with one eye open
Always waiting for one more
I could carry every warning
Like a weapon in my hands
I could leave before you left me
I could run before I ran
[Pre-Chorus]
But the thunder never came
And the sky remained the same
There was nowhere I had to go
Still my heart said, “Don’t get close”
[Chorus]
I learned how to run
I learned how to fight
Learned how to make it
Through one more night
But nobody told me
When the hurting went away
The hardest thing I’d learn
Was how to stay
How to stay…
How to stay…
[Drop]
Stay—
When the door is open
Stay—
When my heart is scared
Stay—
When nothing’s broken
And somebody’s still there
[Verse 2]
Now the morning feels like sunlight
Not another war to win
And I’m learning peace is something
I can slowly let me in
Maybe love is not a warning
Maybe home won’t disappear
Maybe I can plant my roots here
Without listening for fear
[Pre-Chorus]
Every heartbeat used to say
Run before they walk away
Now I hear another sound
Like roots growing through the ground
[Chorus]
I learned how to run
I learned how to fight
Learned how to make it
Through one more night
But nobody told me
When the hurting went away
The bravest thing I’d learn
Was how to stay
[Breakdown]
Breathe.
You don’t have to run.
Breathe.
The battle’s already done.
[Low Chant]
Lay it down.
Lay it down.
You don’t need your armor now.
[Build]
One heartbeat
Then another
One sunrise
Then another
I don’t need to know forever
I just need to choose today
I’m learning—
I’m learning—
I’M LEARNING TO STAY!
[Final Chorus]
I knew how to run
I knew how to fight
I knew how to survive
Every terrible night
Now somebody tell the shadows
They don’t own me anyway
I survived so I could live here
And I’m choosing now to stay
I’m still scared
But I’m staying
Still healing
Still changing
I don’t need another battle
Just to prove that I am brave
Sometimes courage isn’t fighting—
Sometimes courage is to stay
[Final Drop]
STAY!
Through the quiet
STAY!
Through the change
STAY!
Plant your roots
And welcome rain
No more running
No more race
I have finally found a life
I don’t need to escape
[Outro]
It’s quiet now…
And quiet
Feels like home.