[Verse 1]
I used to talk to corners
To shadows on my wall
You said it was imagination
I knew they heard me call
Tiny hands
Big questions
Why the air felt strange at night
Grandma’s voice in an empty hallway
Telling me I’d be alright
[Chorus]
I was a child of two worlds
One hand here
One hand there
Thought I was lost
I was learning a language
Made of feeling in the air
All of the pain
All of the nights
I’d lie awake and shake and cry
Turned to a path made of quiet and candles
Now I help their spirits say goodbye
[Verse 2]
Doctors named my aching
Gave it numbers
Gave it names
But every flare was a doorway
Every fever carried flames
Breathing through the trembling
I heard a whisper
Soft and clear
“Take the hurt you’re holding
Turn it into healing here”
[Chorus]
I was a child of two worlds
One hand here
One hand there
Thought I was lost
I was learning a language
Made of feeling in the air
All of the pain
All of the nights
I’d lie awake and shake and cry
Turned to a path made of quiet and candles
Now I help their spirits say goodbye
[Bridge]
In my room with a stranger’s picture
Tears on a folded shirt
I say the name that reaches through me
We walk them through their hurt
Stories fall like broken glass
I see where each piece goes
I hold the living
Hold the leaving
Until everybody knows
[Chorus]
I was a child of two worlds
One hand here
One hand there
Thought I was lost
I was learning a language
Made of feeling in the air
All of the pain
All of the nights
I’d lie awake and shake and cry
Became this work
This sacred listening
Where I help their spirits say goodbye
[Outro]
Little girl talking to corners
You were never strange or wrong
You were just hearing the quiet between us
Now that quiet sings through every soul I’ve drawn