Borrow Your Eyes

[Intro: rain texture, detuned piano]

[Verse 1: intimate, breathy baritone]
You came into the room like thunder
I mistook your fear for rage
Started writing out your character
Before I'd read a single page
Then you told me about your morning
And the nights that came before
Suddenly the stranger standing here
Wasn't strange anymore

[Pre-Chorus: ascending falsetto]
I don't have to feel your pain
To understand it's real

[Chorus: soaring layered melody]
Let me borrow your eyes
For a moment of your life
See the shadows on the walls
That you have learned to live behind
I may never walk your road
But I can meet you where you are
And the distance gets much smaller
When I listen with my heart

[Break: melodic fretless bass, granular drums]

[Verse 2: flowing melodic phrasing]
You don't have to be an angel
I don't have to think you're right
I can see the human being
In the middle of the fight

[Bridge: drums fade, fragile duet]
(You don't know me)
Then let me learn
(You can't fix me)
That's not my turn

[Final Chorus: warm harmonic lift]
Let me borrow your eyes
And lend you mine in return
We may never see alike
But there's so much we can learn

[Outro: piano and bass dissolve]