Nothing Bad Enough

[Verse]
We weren’t fighting
Nothing was breaking
The days moved steady
The nights stayed quiet
You asked if I was good
I said yeah without thinking
There wasn’t anything wrong
That I could point to

[Pre-Chorus]
I kept waiting
For something clear
Something loud enough
To make the choice for me

[Chorus]
There was nothing bad enough
To make me leave
Nothing sharp enough
To set me free
So I stayed inside the normal
Called it peace
There was nothing bad enough
But I wasn’t me

[Verse]
I learned how to want less
Without saying it out loud
Stopped expecting changes
Stopped checking the future
Friends asked how things were going
I told them steady
It sounded responsible
It sounded grown

[Pre-Chorus]
I kept lowering the bar
So I wouldn’t have to face
What I already knew

[Chorus]
There was nothing bad enough
To make me leave
Nothing broken
Nothing I could blame
So I stayed where it was familiar
And incomplete
There was nothing bad enough
Just nothing changing me

[Bridge]
Nobody held me here
That’s the truth
I wasn’t trapped
I was comfortable
I wasn’t waiting for better
I was waiting for worse
So I’d have permission
To walk away

[Build]
Everything quiet
Everything rising

[Gospel Choir]

[Final Chorus]
There was nothing bad enough
To make me leave
So I stayed longer
Than I believed
Now I know the difference
Between calm and empty
There was nothing bad enough
But there wasn’t life in me

[Outro]
Sometimes you don’t leave
Because something ends
Sometimes you leave
Because nothing ever begins

Dark Blues-Rock • Modern Americana • Emotional Alternative, male vocal, cinematic slow-burn