Choose the Door

[Verse 1]
I wake beneath a borrowed answer
Folded neatly by the bed
Every door says keep surrendering
Every pulse says move ahead

I trace the cracks across the ceiling
Count the reasons to remain
Hope arrives without permission
Submission wears my name

[Pre-Chorus]
If I kneel, will the ground forgive me?
If I stand, will I disappear?
There’s a voice that calls it safety
There’s a louder one I hear

[Chorus]
I am not the hand that pulls me under
I am not the cage I learned to love
Hope is a match inside the thunder
Submission says I’ve had enough
I bend, I break, I come back furious
With both feet shaking on the floor
If I have to choose between the silence
And the wound, I’ll choose the door

[Verse 2]
I wore obedience like a jacket
Heavy seams against my throat
Every promise made me smaller
Every failure kept me close

Then a red light crossed the hallway
Then my heartbeat missed the count
I could feel the locked-up future
Pushing from the inside out

[Pre-Chorus]
If I stay, will the fear grow gentle?
If I leave, what will I lose?
There’s a hand that holds my shoulder
There’s a fist I have to choose

[Chorus]
I am not the hand that pulls me under
I am not the cage I learned to love
Hope is a match inside the thunder
Submission says I’ve had enough
I bend, I break, I come back furious
With both feet shaking on the floor
If I have to choose between the silence
And the wound, I’ll choose the door

[Bridge]
Let the room collapse around me
Let the old commands turn dust
I can fear the open distance
I can move because I must

[Breakdown]
No more waiting for permission
No more blessing from the chain
I can carry every consequence
I can call it by its name

[Instrumental]

[Final Chorus]
I am not the hand that pulls me under
I am not the cage I learned to love
Hope is a match inside the thunder
Submission says I’ve had enough
I bend, I break, I come back furious
With both feet shaking on the floor
If I have to choose between the silence
And the wound, I’ll choose the door

[Outro]
The door is open
The fear is mine
I step through trembling
And call it life