Column Bearing Weight

[Verse 1]
I hold the ceiling over everyone
While hairline tremors travel through my frame
The life I want is pressing from the outside
The life I have still calls me by my name

[Pre-Chorus]
If I lean toward it, something gives
If I stay still, I disappear

[Chorus]
I am the column bearing weight
A tired spine beneath the room
I want to buckle, want to break
But there are lives beneath me too
So I will bend and take one step
Not burn the house to prove I’m brave
I’m still becoming, still not gone
Though all I do is hold the strain

[Verse 2]
I count the cost in ordinary mornings
A voice I love, a promise, rent due soon
Desire keeps its hand against my shoulder
And asks what I can carry without ruin

[Pre-Chorus]
Maybe courage isn’t leaving
Maybe it’s a crack that lets me move

[Chorus]
I am the column bearing weight
A tired spine beneath the room
I want to buckle, want to break
But there are lives beneath me too
So I will bend and take one step
Not burn the house to prove I’m brave
I’m still becoming, still not gone
Though all I do is hold the strain

[Breakdown]
I don’t have to fall to change
I don’t have to choose today
One small shift, one honest inch
I can keep the load and live

[Final Chorus]
I am the column bearing weight
But weight is not the whole of me
I want to build beyond this place
Without making wreckage of the things I need
So I will bend and take one step
Let careful motion make its claim
I’m still becoming, still not gone
And I can move while holding strain

[Instrumental Cadence]
[Clean resolved ending]