Lyric

Late night, ceiling in grayscale

Blue light painting shadows on the wall

Heartbeats out of tempo

Scrolling like I’m going nowhere at all

Woke up with static in my chest

All the “what if” lightning in my head

Every tiny thing I said

Replaying like a movie I regret

I put on my oldest hoodie

Hide my face behind a coffee cup

Staring at the morning subway glass

Thinking I will never be enough

But there’s a quiet little echo

Under all the noise and rain

A softer voice that’s saying

“Hey, you’re not the problem, it’s just pain”

So I tell myself

Hey, you’re gonna be alright

You don’t have to glow

Like the neon every night

You can shake, you can fall

You can cry and still be strong

Little steps still count as moving on

I tell myself

“Breathe, you’re doing what you can”

You don’t need to be

Anybody else again

There’s a soft thunder

Rolling in your chest tonight

It’s just your courage

Learning how to sound like light

I always walk the quiet sidewalks

Half a step behind my friends’ jokes

Laughing at the perfect timing

Wishing I could say the clever quotes

I save a hundred little drafts

Messages I’ll never really send

“Sorry I’m so slow and messy”

Backspace every word in the end

But then I catch my own reflection

In a closing elevator door

Looking tired but still standing

Maybe that is what brave is for

So I tell myself

Hey, you’re gonna be alright

You don’t have to win

Every battle, every fight

You can shake, you can fall

You can learn a bit too late

Growing slow is still a pretty pace

I tell myself

“Look, you made it through today”

Even if your hands

Couldn’t keep the fear away

There’s a soft thunder

Rolling in your chest tonight

It’s just your courage

Learning how to sound like light

I’ve been waiting for someone

To come and rescue me

But maybe I’ve been standing

Next to my own key

Every time I whispered

“I am not enough”

It was just a little fracture

Not the whole of who I was

So if I’m gonna break

Let it be the shell I wear

Let the pieces hit the ground

And grow into flowers there

So I tell myself

Hey, you’re gonna be alright

Even if your sky

Is a thousand shades of night

You can shake, you can fall

You can still be worth the song

Even if you sometimes sing it wrong

I tell myself

“Stay, I’m not leaving you behind”

Every trembling word

Is a promise in my mind

There’s a soft thunder

Rolling in my chest tonight

And every tiny echo

Spells my name in gentle light

Late night turning into morning

Curtains glowing silver, pale and blue

The world will never notice

But I got through the storm, and I said

“I believe in you”