Weather That Isn’t Personal

[Verse 1] Rain on the hood, gray in the glass Morning dragging its coat through the yard I used to read every hard thing as a message Some coded proof I had gotten it wrong Every delay like a judgment Every silence like a sign Every closed hand in the world Somehow closing over mine [Pre-Chorus] But the clouds don’t gather To teach me a lesson And the wind don’t rise To call me by name [Chorus] It’s weather that isn’t personal Rain that don’t know what I fear A sky that turns without asking Who I was hoping to be this year Weather that isn’t personal Still lands cold when it comes But not every darkening horizon Means I’m the one it’s coming for [Verse 2] There’s a strange kind of freedom in that A loosening somewhere in the chest To stop taking thunder as prophecy To stop making the world confess Some days just break in pieces Some doors just close from weight Some roads flood out for no reason And still I can choose how I wait [Pre-Chorus] The river keeps moving Without needing my grief The season keeps turning Without asking belief [Chorus] It’s weather that isn’t personal Rain that don’t know what I fear A sky that turns without asking Who I was hoping to be this year Weather that isn’t personal Still lands cold when it comes But not every darkening horizon Means I’m the one it’s coming for [Bridge] I don’t need the storm To mean something holy I don’t need the loss To prove I was seen Maybe the hard thing is only the hard thing And meaning is what I bring In the way I carry it In the way I leave it clean [Final Chorus] It’s weather that isn’t personal And somehow that lets me breathe A sky that turns without malice A world that does not revolve around me Weather that isn’t personal Not cruel, not kind, just real And maybe peace begins exactly there In learning not every wound is aimed to kill [Outro] The sky did not wake up angry with me It just broke open