Growing Where I Am

[Verse 1]
I kept a tally on the kitchen wall
Every little win, still I wanted it all
You said, “Take a breath, let the day be enough”
I was busy measuring the shape of my luck

[Pre-Chorus]
Then the list came loose in the wash of the rain
Ink running down like a map without names
I let one small truth settle under my skin
I don't have to earn the right to begin

[Chorus]
I’m learning how to come back to me
One honest breath, one thing I can see
No finish line, no perfect disguise
I meet my own face and stay for a while
I’m learning how to make room inside
For every old hurt I no longer hide
The life I was chasing is here in my hands
I’m growing where I am

[Verse 2]
You found my old notebook under the bed
“Things I’ll forgive” in a list I had read
I crossed out the names I kept saving for later
And wrote my own first, in the space beneath them

[Pre-Chorus]
A cup by the window, the kettle goes still
The morning arrives without asking my will
I don't need a sign carved into the sky
I can choose the next step, and let that be mine

[Chorus]
I’m learning how to come back to me
One honest breath, one thing I can see
No finish line, no perfect disguise
I meet my own face and stay for a while
I’m learning how to make room inside
For every old hurt I no longer hide
The life I was chasing is here in my hands
I’m growing where I am

[Bridge]
Some days the old ache still knocks at the door
I hear it, I name it, I don't feed it more
You sit beside me; we don't need a cure
Just time, a warm coat, and a little more room
I am not a debt that I have to repay
I can be unfinished and loved anyway

[Final Chorus]
I’m learning how to come back to me
One honest breath, one thing I can see
No finish line, no perfect disguise
I meet my own face and stay for a while
I’m learning how to make room inside
For every old hurt I no longer hide
The life I was chasing is here in my hands
I’m growing where I am
I’m growing where I am
[Outro]
Here in my hands
I’m growing where I am