When The Room Softens

[Intro] [Verse 1] The chair is still the chair The window still the same Light falls across the floorboards In the old familiar way Nothing in the room announces That anything has changed And still the air sits easier Like it has stopped expecting me to break [Pre-Chorus] I don’t know when it started I only know I felt My shoulders lower half an inch Before I knew it myself [Chorus] When the room softens When the hard edges blur When the noise in the walls Doesn’t sound like a warning first When the room softens I don’t reach for the door I just stay where I am And let it be more [Verse 2] The pipes still knock at night The stairs still answer back The world is not transformed No miracle in that But the old alert is quieter The old flinch less severe And I can feel my body Not mistaking stillness for fear [Pre-Chorus] Maybe safety Doesn’t enter like a shout Maybe it comes in by degrees Till the body lets it count [Chorus] When the room softens When the hard edges blur When the noise in the walls Doesn’t sound like a warning first When the room softens I don’t reach for the door I just stay where I am And let it be more [Bridge] No one says You are safe now No bell rings No light turns gold It’s smaller than that Stranger than that A little less armor In the blood [Final Chorus] When the room softens When the long guard breaks When the silence stays gentle And the body does not shake When the room softens I don’t need to understand I just sit in the quiet And let it land [Outro] It happens slowly Like the house forgetting how to echo