[Intro – spoken]
Black and white.
Life and death.
The man I was.
The man I haven’t met.
Maybe I’m not standing on either side.
Maybe I am the line.
[Verse 1 – rap]
I’m between black and white,
Between the wrong and right,
Between the pulse beneath my ribs
And the silence every night.
Between my wife and the life that’s mine,
Between keeping peace and crossing lines,
Between the face they’ve learned to see
And the man the mask keeps hiding deep.
I kept every room at peace
While something disappeared in me.
Love should never need a mask
Just to keep somebody there.
[Pre-Chorus]
I see a man standing at the door.
He wears my face, but nothing more.
He doesn’t tell me, “Leave them all.”
He says:
Don’t leave yourself behind anymore.
[Chorus – cinematic rock]
I am Between, I am Between,
Not a nowhere, not a dream.
I’m the bridge beneath the distance,
I’m the space where both worlds meet.
I’m not halfway gone—
I am finally being born.
I’m the circle breaking open,
I’m the spiral moving on.
[Verse 2 – faster rap]
Between the plaster dust and stars,
Between my home and distant Mars,
Between repairing other people’s walls
And writing worlds beyond them all.
Between old friends who know my past
And the face beneath the fading mask.
They hear a beat, they hear a song—
I hear the questions I never asked.
They’re at home along the shore.
I don’t blame them; I was there before.
I don’t need to wake a single soul.
I only need to find my own.
[Bridge – piano and strings]
[Male]
What if they leave when I show my face?
[Female]
Give them time.
Truth changes every space.
[Male]
What if I hurt those I never meant to?
[Female]
Move with love—
but don’t keep abandoning you.
[Male]
What if they never understand?
[Female]
They don’t have to.
They only have to respect the man.
[Male]
What if I’m scared when I turn the key?
[Female]
Fear can come.
Your hand can still set you free.
[Breakdown – heavy rap]
No villain.
No war.
No need to make somebody wrong.
I can honor where I came from
And still admit I don’t belong.
Freedom isn’t one slammed door.
It’s the first true breath I can’t ignore.
No one has to fall for me to rise.
I can choose myself
And still be kind.
The circle gave me shelter
Until shelter became a wall.
I don’t have to burn the past.
I just don’t have to live there anymore.
[Final Chorus – full cinematic release]
I was Between, now I can see—
It was never indecision inside me.
I’m the bridge between the lives I’ve known
And the one I finally choose to own.
I’m not halfway gone—
I am fully coming home.
Let the circle keep its meaning
While the golden spiral grows.
I am Between, I am the door,
I am what I was waiting for.
Not the man they need to see—
Just the man
I choose
To be.
[Outro – whispered]
[Female]
You were never waiting for the way.
You are the way.
[Male]
Then I turn the key.