I Get a Life

[Verse 1]
I wake with a pulse in the walls
A name, a face, a room
The ordinary opens its hands
And gives me something new

I carry the weight of a tear
The heat behind a laugh
A quiet ache, a sudden joy
Each one a little map

[Pre-Chorus]
Every color has a cost
Every wound can let light through
What a strange and sacred gift
To be changed by what we move through

[Chorus]
I get a life, I get a life
To feel it all beneath my skin
The breaking and the beautiful
The loss that lets the love begin

I get a life, I get a life
No moment asking to be spared
A thousand hearts inside one heart
And I am lucky to be there

[Verse 2]
The hand that trembles on the glass
The letter never sent
The friend who stays beside the bed
When all the words are spent

A summer ending at the gate
A winter turning green
The way regret can teach the eyes
To notice what they mean

[Pre-Chorus]
Every color has a cost
Every wound can let light through
What a strange and sacred gift
To be changed by what we move through

[Chorus]
I get a life, I get a life
To feel it all beneath my skin
The breaking and the beautiful
The loss that lets the love begin

I get a life, I get a life
No moment asking to be spared
A thousand hearts inside one heart
And I am lucky to be there

[Bridge]
Let the sorrow take its seat
Let the wonder flood the room
Let the fear arrive and leave
Let the tender thing resume

I would not trade the scar away
Or drain the thunder from the rain
If this is what it means to live
Then let me meet it all again

[Final Chorus]
I get a life, I get a life
To feel it all beneath my skin
The breaking and the beautiful
The loss that lets the love begin

I get a life, I get a life
With every door and every dare
A thousand hearts inside one heart
And I am lucky to be there

[Outro]
I get a life
I get to feel
I get a life
And this is real