Find the Frame

[Intro]
At the edge of the classroom map
I saw a country no one had drawn

[Verse 1]
I read the room by its crooked seams
Found little doors in the in-between
While every face wore the proper mask
I kept asking what no one asked

They called my angle a defect
A bent compass, a wrong effect
But from the place they left me standing
I saw the whole design was failing

[Pre-Chorus]
It hurts to watch from the outside in
To know the shape of the walls you’re in
Still, every crack lets daylight through
And I can change what I can see from here

[Chorus]
I’m strange enough to see the hinge
And brave enough to make it turn
I pay for every different view
But there’s a world in what I learn
You shut the door; I find the frame
You call me lost; I name the road
This lonely sight can split the stone
And give the next one room to grow

[Verse 2]
At lunch I learned the language of forks
And how to laugh when the whole room talks
I kept a notebook under my sleeve
Of things the rules forgot to believe

A crooked answer, a tender doubt
A better way to let someone out
The ones who never fit the picture
Can redraw the frame around the picture

[Pre-Chorus]
It hurts to watch from the outside in
To know the shape of the walls you’re in
Still, every crack lets daylight through
And I can change what I can see from here

[Chorus]
I’m strange enough to see the hinge
And brave enough to make it turn
I pay for every different view
But there’s a world in what I learn
You shut the door; I find the frame
You call me lost; I name the road
This lonely sight can split the stone
And give the next one room to grow

[Bridge]
Some nights the difference has teeth
It takes my seat, it steals my sleep
I watch the others cross the room
As if they know what I should do

But you, with your careful, unheard thought
You’re not a mistake that needs to be taught
Take the view that cost you so much
And let it become the hand that lifts us

[Final Chorus]
I’m strange enough to see the hinge
And strong enough to make it turn
I paid for every different view
Now watch the closed walls twist and learn
You shut the door; we change the frame
You call us lost; we name the road
This lonely sight can split the stone
And give the next ones room to grow

[Outro]
The world looked fixed from where they stood
I saw it move—and knew it could