Ladder of Thunder

[Verse 1]
I count the rooms I never enter
Names of wants across a page
Every answer grows a question
Every lock becomes a cage

I wear the proof around my wrist
Still feel the missing weight
I turn the key, I cross the threshold
Then negotiate with fate

[Pre-Chorus]
How much can a heart carry
Before the wanting starts to bend?
I keep moving toward the summit
Just to start the climb again

[Chorus]
I am the hand and I am the hunger
I am the door and the one who knocks
I build a ladder out of thunder
Then wonder why the silence talks

[Verse 2]
There’s a photograph on the kitchen wall
A younger face I barely know
He thought the world would finally open
If he learned exactly where to go

Now every mile becomes a mirror
Every prize reflects the cost
I call it drive, I call it progress
Anything but what I’ve lost

[Pre-Chorus]
How much can a heart carry
When the wanting learns my name?
I keep polishing the weapon
Then complain about the blade

[Chorus]
I am the hand and I am the hunger
I am the door and the one who knocks
I build a ladder out of thunder
Then wonder why the silence talks

[Bridge]
Put the numbers down
Let the room stay plain
Feel the floor beneath me
Without earning my place

If the answer isn’t waiting
In the next thing I pursue
Maybe being here is larger
Than the life I meant to prove

[Final Chorus]
I am the hand and I am the hunger
I am the door and the one who knocks
I build a ladder out of thunder
Then wonder why the silence talks

I can leave one question open
I can let the silence stay
With an empty space beside me
And no need to fill the shape

[Outro]
I am here
I am here
No finish line
No disappearing act