I Stay

[Verse 1]
Some mornings I want to pull the pin
On every plan I’ve kept alive
Watch the careful scaffolding fold
And see what’s left when nothing survives

[Pre-Chorus]
A clean page feels like a dare
A door I could kick wide
But I picture your face in the wreckage
And I put the match aside

[Chorus]
I want the whole thing gone
The frame, the name, the shape I’m in
A sudden empty field
Where I could start without a skin
Then I remember you would feel it
Every piece that hits the ground
So I stay here, hands still shaking
While the urge runs itself down

[Verse 2]
I could call the breaking freedom
Call the silence something new
But your laugh lives in this tangled life
And I can’t make it pay for what I do

[Bridge]
Maybe courage isn’t burning
Maybe it’s the slower choice
To let the wanting pass through me
Without turning it to noise

[Final Chorus]
I want the whole thing gone
The frame, the name, the shape I’m in
A sudden empty field
Where I could start without a skin
Then I remember you would feel it
Every piece that hits the ground
So I stay here, hands still shaking
And let tomorrow come around

[Outro]
I stay.
I stay.