Leave a Chair Beside the Table

[Verse 1]
You saw the crack beneath the paint
The rule dressed up as common sense
You asked why every crooked beam
Was called a wall that must not bend
They laughed when you named what they hid
Like naming it made you the flaw
But once you see the hinge and pin
You know the door was never law

[Pre-Chorus]
You held the truth out in your hands
They stepped away, you understand

[Chorus]
You’re not strange for seeing clearly
You’re the one who sees the seam
Every world was once somebody’s
Wild and unapproved idea
But the ones who move the mountains
Often sleep beyond the crowd
You can change the shape of everything
And still feel missing from it now

[Verse 2]
You take apart the easy answer
Find the cost they left outside
Put a name beside the number
Give the quiet ones a side
You draw a road through old assumptions
Cut a window through the wall
Then turn to tell the room what changed
And find no one there at all

[Pre-Chorus]
You made a place where none could stand
Now who will reach and take your hand?

[Chorus]
You’re not strange for seeing clearly
You’re the one who sees the seam
Every world was once somebody’s
Wild and unapproved idea
But the ones who move the mountains
Often sleep beyond the crowd
You can change the shape of everything
And still feel missing from it now

[Bridge: half-time, intimate]
At dinner, you rehearse the sentence
Then let the potatoes cool
Your sister says, “You think too deeply”
You smile and pass the serving bowl
You wanted more than being right
You wanted someone there beside you
Someone who could face the open door
And not ask you to go hide, too

[Build]
So if your hands are tired from holding
What the room refuses to see
Leave a light on in the window
There are others finding keys

[Final Chorus]
You’re not strange for seeing clearly
You’re a signal through the years
Every world begins with someone
Who can look straight through the fear
And the ones who move the mountains
Need a place to set them down
You can change the shape of everything
You don’t have to change alone now

[Outro]
Leave a chair beside the table
Leave the door unlatched tonight
There are others seeing clearly
There are others looking for the light