[INTRO]
[Soft piano. Room tone. A single low string note fades in]
[VERSE 1]
[Piano only. Close vocal. Intimate]
You stand there like a question
Like a door I’ve never known
There’s a quiet in your breathing
Like you built it on your own
Your eyes don’t shout for attention
They don’t beg to be believed
They just hold their steady lantern
Like they’re waiting there for me
I don’t want your polished answers
Or the armor that you wear
I want the fragile architecture
Of the silence that you spare
[PRE-CHORUS]
[Low strings enter. Subtle swell]
Let the world keep all its thunder
Let it rush and disappear
I would rather sit and wonder
At the way you draw me near
[CHORUS]
[Full strings bloom. Drums enter softly. Vocal rises.]
I will learn you
Like a language born at sea
Every tide that pulls you under
Every shore that sets you free
I will learn you
All the edges, all the hues
Not to change a single color
Just to know the shade of you
And if it takes my lifetime
To hear what you don’t say
I will learn you
Until my dying day
[VERSE 2]
Show me where your courage trembles
Where it bends but doesn’t break
Tell me what you buried deeply
Just to keep the peace you make
Let me trace the hidden fractures
With a careful, steady hand
Not to fix what isn’t broken
Just to finally understand
[PRE-CHORUS]
You don’t have to turn heroic
You don’t have to prove your worth
Lay your history before me
I will treat it like it’s sacred earth
[CHORUS]
I will learn you
Like the turning of the sky
Every shadow of your winter
Every summer in your eyes
I will learn you
Like a promise carved in stone
Not to claim you as my shelter
But to make your storms my own
And if the night grows heavy
And the light is hard to hold
I will learn you
Even when we both grow old
[BREAK]
[Everything drops out. Just a single piano note. Breath]
[BRIDGE]
When your voice forgets its power
When your hands begin to shake
When the past comes like a wildfire
Through the walls you tried to make
When you fear you are too complex
Too unravelled to be loved
Let me be the one who listens
When the world has heard enough
You are not a puzzle missing pieces
You are poetry in blood
[BUILD]
I don’t need to own your future
I don’t need to hold your chains
I just want to know the rhythm
Of the beating in your veins
[FINAL CHORUS]
[Key change]
I will learn you
Like the stars learn how to shine
Every flicker of your doubt
Every fault line in your spine
I will learn you
Till there’s nothing left unknown
Not to conquer or contain you
But to call your truth my home
If the years rewrite our bodies
If the mirror tells us lies
I will learn you
In the language of your sighs
And when the world grows quiet
And the noise has slipped away
I will learn you
In the dark and in the day
[OUTRO]
[Orchestra falls away. Just piano + soft strings]
You don’t have to be a mystery
For me to stay
I will learn you…
Anyway.
[Final suspended chord. Silence]
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