My Room, Their Room

[Verse 1 — low piano, restless percussion]
I open gates to keep your porch dry
Build higher walls each time you cry
I save the valley from a flood
You show me one drop in the mud

[Pre-Chorus — counterpoint vocals]
Beyond the wall my fields are bare
I send the rain everywhere but there

[Chorus — cathartic, layered]
I'm the river I keep refusing
Every current turned away
I give you all the water moving
You count the drops I couldn't save
I want to break this dam to pieces
Let the empty valley bloom
But homes stand right below the spillway
I can't erase them to make room
(My room, their room)

[Verse 2 — muscular bass]
I hear my own banks calling me
A life I never let run free

[Bridge — instruments fall away]
Must love be measured by what's spent?
Must staying mean there's nothing left?

[Final Chorus — bright major lift]
I'll build a gate for my own river
Not a flood and not a lie
I can guard the homes below me
Without draining mine bone-dry
(Let it flow, let it flow)