For This One Minute

[Verse 1]
Your coat is on my shoulders though the room is warm
Your friends keep filling glasses, calling out my name
I catch my breath between the jokes and borrowed stories
And feel the floor hold steady underneath the shame

[Pre-Chorus]
Every wrong turn’s stacked behind me, paper-thin
But no one’s pulled the thread just yet

[Chorus]
For this one minute, I am loved
For this one minute, I am here
All these hands around my shoulders
All this air inside my lungs
And the cards are leaning, still they stand
The whole house waits, but hasn’t fallen
For this one minute, I am loved
For this one minute, I am alive

[Verse 2]
Your sister asks me how I’ve been; I say, “I’m getting there”
The kitchen clock keeps skipping past the things I hid
You squeeze my wrist like you can read the answer there
Then let me keep the quiet I can’t give

[Pre-Chorus]
Every wrong turn’s stacked behind me, paper-thin
But no one’s pulled the thread just yet

[Chorus]
For this one minute, I am loved
For this one minute, I am here
All these hands around my shoulders
All this air inside my lungs
And the cards are leaning, still they stand
The whole house waits, but hasn’t fallen
For this one minute, I am loved
For this one minute, I am alive

[Bridge]
I won’t call this clean
I won’t call it safe
I can hear the timber settling
I can feel the borrowed grace
If morning asks for every answer
I’ll meet it face to face
But tonight your hand is holding mine
And I’m still in this place

[Final Chorus]
For this one minute, I am loved
For this one minute, I am here
All these hands around my shoulders
All this air inside my lungs
And the cards are leaning, still they stand
The whole house waits, but hasn’t fallen
For this one minute, I am loved
For this one minute, I am alive

[Outro]
The room is warm, your coat is mine
The cards still stand tonight