Because You Were There

Verse 1

I walk like water over stone

Nothing sharp beneath my feet

I don’t carry storms inside me

I don’t brace when I breathe

There’s a calm that lives in my body

Like the tide was built in me

I didn’t learn it through drowning

It was given quietly

Pre-Chorus

Some call it luck

Some say I’m strong

I call it love

That held the current long

Chorus

Because you were there

The waves don’t pull me under

I don’t mistake chaos

For something I must conquer

Because you were there

The shoreline feels like home

I don’t wake up surviving

I wake up whole

Verse 2

I see the depth of the ocean

But it doesn’t steal my breath

I know how to feel without folding

I know how to rest

The undertow doesn’t know me

It doesn’t speak my name

I get to choose how I’m moving

Without carrying the rain

Bridge (very soft)

You stood where the current broke

You let the storm pass through

I didn’t have to grow armored

To learn how to be true

Final Chorus (almost whispered harmony)

Because you were there

The water feels kind

I don’t live bracing

For what’s behind

Because you were there

Peace feels real

I don’t fear the stillness

I know how to feel

Outro

I move free

Not because I forgot

But because you calmed the tide