Learn it, Lift it

[Intro]
I was waiting for a sign
So I drew one in the margin
One small promise at a time
Turned the locked door into a garden

[Verse 1]
I put a book beside my bed
And left the phone face down
Learned the names of what I feared
Till fear could not pronounce them now

I took the long way home each day
To teach my lungs the climb
Every skill began as something
I could barely do in time

[Pre-Chorus]
No miracle in the distance
No rescue in the rain
I found a little ground beneath me
And practiced standing there again

[Chorus]
Build it in, build it in
Hope is a muscle under skin
Learn it, lift it, breathe it through
What you make will carry you

Build it in, build it in
Start with where your hands have been
Knowledge, courage, heart, and health
Make a future from yourself

[Post-Chorus]
I can make a way
I can make a way
Brick by brick, day by day
I can make a way

[Verse 2]
I learned to ask a better question
When the answer came up wrong
Kept a meal warm on the stove
Kept my promise to move on

There were weeks the page stayed blank
There were mornings made of lead
Still I laced the shoes beside me
Still I got back out of bed

[Pre-Chorus]
No perfect kind of progress
No straight and shining line
Just a thousand small corrections
Til the shape of me was mine

[Chorus]
Build it in, build it in
Hope is a muscle under skin
Learn it, lift it, breathe it through
What you make will carry you

Build it in, build it in
Start with where your hands have been
Knowledge, courage, heart, and health
Make a future from yourself

[Bridge]
If you need hope, build it in yourself
If you need light, learn the room by touch
If you lose your way, take one more step
One more step is still enough

Let the old doubt count the scars
Let the new day count the miles
You are not a waiting heart
You are work, and will, and wild

[Breakdown]
One breath
One page
One mile
One change

Again
Again
Again
Again

[Final Chorus]
Build it in, build it in
Hope is a muscle under skin
Learn it, lift it, breathe it through
What you make will carry you

Build it in, build it in
Start with where your hands have been
Knowledge, courage, heart, and health
Make a future from yourself

[Finale]
I can make a way
I can make a way
Not because the road is safe
Because I know what I can train

I can make a way
I can make a way
Brick by brick, day by day
Hope is here because I stay

[Outro]
Build it in
Build it in
The future starts beneath your skin