Ordinary Mercy

[Intro] We’re still not fixed… But we’re not running either… [Verse 1] The kettle clicks and I don’t flinch as hard The floorboards creak and I stay in bed You pour the coffee black and hand me mine We don’t pretend it’s perfect, we just don’t pretend we’re dead The crack still runs up the hallway paint The dent is still there from the chair But the light through the bent blinds feels different now Like it’s not trying to disappear [Pre-Chorus] We thought healing would look like erasing Like the shadows would all burn away Turns out it just looks like Tuesday morning With the damage still on display [Chorus] This is ordinary mercy The kind that doesn’t shine This is ordinary mercy We stay in it, we stay in it Grey is still our color But it don’t get to wear us thin We left the lights on And we’re learning how to live in it [Verse 2] I still know the way out, I still feel the map But tonight I leave the bag unpacked You still watch me when I shut the drawer I still name it when the silence cracks We laugh about the ghosts in the kitchen With a mouthful of bad news and bad jokes Two people who finally stopped vanishing Inside the same four walls we chose [Pre-Chorus 2] No fixer, no miracle, no clean slate Just two survivors learning how to breathe This is the mercy in the damage The kind you don’t have to believe [Chorus] This is ordinary mercy The kind that doesn’t shine This is ordinary mercy We stay in it, we stay in it Grey is still our color But it don’t get to wear us thin We left the lights on And we’re learning how to live in it [Bridge] No golden hour, no redemption arc Just ordinary light on ordinary scars And the quiet sound of two people choosing To stay right where the color never was [Final Chorus] This is ordinary mercy The kind that doesn’t shine This is ordinary mercy We stay in it… we stay in it Grey is still our color And we wear it slack and free We left the lights on This is how we choose to be