Permissions

Verse 1

You don’t stand as close as you used to

You let the air exist between

Like you finally learned the difference

Between wanting and intervening

There’s no urgency in your body

No demand behind your eyes

And that alone feels unfamiliar

More than all your old goodbyes

You’re not asking me to trust you

You’re not asking me to stay

You’re existing in the present

Without pulling me your way

And I notice every movement

Every boundary you respect

Every version of restraint

I never thought I’d get

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Pre-Chorus

There’s something quieter now

Not weak, but controlled

Not asking to enter

Just no longer closed

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Chorus

You wait like you understand

I don’t belong to your hands

Not something you reopen on command

You wait like you finally see

Access isn’t guaranteed

And that changes everything in me

No pressure, no silent force

No expectation to restore

What doesn’t live here anymore

You wait like you understand

I don’t belong to your hands

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Verse 2

You don’t reach unless I reach first

You don’t speak unless it’s true

You don’t fill the space with noise

Just to make yourself feel secure

And it does something unexpected

Not forgiveness, not relief

Just a shift inside my system

A revision of belief

You stopped trying to convince me

You stopped trying to explain

And somehow in that absence

You removed a layer of weight

You became someone unfamiliar

Not through words, but through release

Not trying to earn redemption

Just existing differently

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Pre-Chorus

There’s power in what you don’t do

In what you don’t assume

In how you let silence

Decide if there’s room

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Chorus

You wait like you understand

I don’t belong to your hands

Not something you reopen on command

You wait like you finally see

Access isn’t guaranteed

And that changes everything in me

No pressure, no silent force

No expectation to restore

What doesn’t live here anymore

You wait like you understand

I don’t belong to your hands

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Bridge

Maybe this is what safety becomes

Not intensity, not running toward

Just the absence of invasion

Just the absence of before

You’re not trying to be chosen

You’re not trying to undo

And that’s the only reason

I’m still standing here with you

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Final Chorus

You wait like you understand

I don’t belong to your hands

Not something you reopen on command

You wait like you finally see

Access isn’t guaranteed

And that changes everything in me

No promises left to defend

No illusion left to pretend

Just presence without demand

You wait like you understand