The Oldest Thing We Know

[Verse 1]
Before the walls and the warnings
Before the names and the blame
There was a breath in the darkness
There was a spark in the clay
And every mother and mystic
Every fire, every road
Tried to tell us through the centuries
We were never here alone

[Pre-Chorus]
But we scare easy
We forget fast
Turn our pain into a kingdom
Try to make it last

[Chorus]
The oldest thing we know is love
The oldest lie is we’re apart
Every holy song kept reaching
For the same unfinished heart
You do not win by growing colder
You do not heal by closing up
The only way through all this darkness
Is to stay soft and brave enough
To tell the truth
To choose the light
To see yourself in someone else tonight

[Verse 2]
We made gods out of being certain
Built our thrones out of being right
Wore our wounds just like armor
In the middle of the night
But power never made us holy
And fear never made us strong
What saves a life is mercy moving
When the world says don’t belong

[Pre-Chorus]
What if all the signs and stories
All the breaking, all the flame
Were just hands inside the darkness
Trying to point us home again

[Chorus]
The oldest thing we know is love
The oldest lie is we’re apart
Every broken scripture reaching
For the same unfinished heart
You do not win by standing over
You do not heal by crushing through
The only way through all this sorrow
Is to stay soft enough for truth
To choose the light
To bear the cost
To love again after all we’ve lost

[Bridge]
Be humble like the water
Be steady as the sun
Lay down the need to conquer
Let your heart become undone
See the stranger as your mirror
See the wound beneath the rage
We were never meant for empire
We were made to light the way

[Final Chorus]
The oldest thing we know is love
The oldest lie is we’re alone
Every century has whispered it
In flesh and dust and stone
So lay your fear down gently
Let your guarded spirit move
We were never meant to conquer
We were always meant to love
To choose the light
To hold the line
To leave this world more whole than when we arrived

[Outro]
And if there is a kingdom
And if there is a road through
It lives wherever one heart chooses
To stay soft and tell the truth

cinematic spiritual anthem, huge emotional chorus, intimate verse to explosive lift, modern indie rock