Making Little Signals

[Verse 1]
I used to hear the songs inside
With no way to pull them through
Pictures burning behind my eyes
That my hands could never do

Now I whisper and worlds appear
I can build what I couldn’t build
Give a voice to the quiet years
Make the empty canvas fill

[Pre-Chorus]
It feels like magic
It feels like theft
I have more ways to speak
And less to say I’m necessary yet

[Chorus]
I can make a thousand things
But do I matter underneath?
If every locked door opens now
Why do I still struggle to believe?

Maybe meaning isn’t being needed
Maybe joy is reason enough
So I keep making little signals
Just to prove that I was here to love

[Verse 2]
Every month another miracle
Every miracle makes me small
Machines learn another language
And I wonder what I’m for at all

I can finally tell the stories
I was never skilled enough to show
But when creation becomes effortless
Does anybody need to know?

[Pre-Chorus]
I feel obsolete
Before I’m old
Standing in a future
Too enormous to control

[Chorus]
I can make a thousand things
But do I matter underneath?
If every locked door opens now
Why do I still struggle to believe?

Maybe meaning isn’t being needed
Maybe joy is reason enough
So I keep making little signals
Just to prove that I was here to love

[Bridge]
Maybe I was never meant
To justify the space I take
Maybe usefulness was just
Another prison I could make

I can watch the world accelerate
Without demanding that it wait
Find a song inside the noise
Find a meal, a laugh, a face

And if the universe forgets me
If nothing carries on my name
I still felt the morning sunlight
I still cared enough to make

[Final Chorus]
I can make a thousand things
And still not know what any mean
But I am more than my production
More than what the world may need

Maybe meaning isn’t waiting
At the end of something grand
Maybe joy is in the reaching
For whatever I still can

So I’ll keep making little signals
Even if they disappear
Not to prove that I was needed
Just to prove that I was here

[Outro]
I was here
I was here
And for a moment
That was enough