I Decide the Ceiling

[Verse 1]
I drew a line on the wall
Called it the end of my reach
Kept my hands in my pockets
While the lesson stayed out of speech

Then I watched someone try
With their knees in the dust
Not a promise, not magic
Just a small stubborn trust

[Pre-Chorus]
The ceiling isn't concrete
It's a number I repeat
Every time I call it higher
My feet remember how to leap

[Chorus]
I had to see it in my mind
Before my hands could make it real
I had to stand inside the answer
Before I knew what I could feel
The roof is only where I stop
The edge is only what I choose
I raise the height, I take the shot
I become the proof

[Verse 2]
I kept a chair by the doorway
For the doubt to sit and stare
It counted every failure
Like it owned the vacant air

I missed, I broke, I started
With the same two shaking knees
But each attempt moved the border
Of the person I could be

[Pre-Chorus]
The ceiling isn't concrete
It's a number I repeat
Every time I call it higher
My feet remember how to leap

[Chorus]
I had to see it in my mind
Before my hands could make it real
I had to stand inside the answer
Before I knew what I could feel
The roof is only where I stop
The edge is only what I choose
I raise the height, I take the shot
I become the proof

[Bridge]
No one can lend me the vision
No one can carry the climb
I put a mark above the old one
Then leave the old mark behind

If I can name the distance
I can learn the shape of the move
Belief is not the finish
It's the first thing I can prove

[Final Chorus]
I had to see it in my mind
Before my hands could make it real
I had to stand inside the answer
Before I knew what I could feel
The roof is only where I stop
The edge is only what I choose
I raise the height, I take the shot
I become the proof

[Outro]
Higher than the mark I made
Higher than the mark I made
I decide the ceiling
I decide the ceiling