I Begin

[Verse 1]
I wore five faces to the morning train
One for the mirror, one for the name
One chased the heat of a stranger's skin
One counted duties I couldn't miss
One drew a map to a higher room
While I kept shrinking to fit the suit

[Pre-Chorus]
They pulled my hands in opposite ways
I fed each hunger, I paid each debt
The louder they spoke, the less I knew
Which one was mine, which one was you

[Chorus]
I am not the war between them
Not the crown, not the chain
I can gather every splinter
And still answer to my name
Let the wanting kneel beside me
Let the guilty heart release
All the parts I kept dividing
Can come home and make me whole

[Verse 2]
There was a photograph under the bed
A child with a bruise-colored sky overhead
He had no empire, no alibi
Just a small bright pulse he refused to hide
I nearly laughed at the tender proof
Then felt my ribs make room

[Pre-Chorus]
For the hand that reaches, the hand that gives
The hand that builds and the hand that lives
No appetite has to rule the house
No buried voice has to drown me out

[Chorus]
I am not the war between them
Not the crown, not the chain
I can gather every splinter
And still answer to my name
Let the wanting kneel beside me
Let the guilty heart release
All the parts I kept dividing
Can come home and make me whole

[Bridge]
Ambition, sit down at the table
Lust, tell the truth and stay
Duty, loosen your collar
Pride, put the knife away
I will not crown one hunger
I will not exile the rest
I am the room they share together
I am the breath in my chest

[Final Chorus]
I am not the war between them
I am wider than the flame
I can carry every fracture
Without worshiping the pain
Let the wanting move beside me
Let the old masks fall below
All the parts I kept dividing
Have come home, and now I know

[Outro]
No perfect angel, no enemy
Just every unfinished part of me
Hand in hand beneath one skin
I lose the war, and I begin