One Warm Window Lit

[Verse 1]
You gave my hands a place to put
The pictures I kept folded up
A room of phrases, unsaid for years
Now they can stand where I can hear

[Pre-Chorus]
I made a little world appear
Then looked beyond it, disappeared
The wider the horizon grew
The smaller I felt passing through

[Chorus]
Am I still here if the work comes easy?
Do I count when the world moves on?
I keep making, I keep reaching
For a reason to greet the dawn
If I can’t be the whole sky turning
Let me be one warm window lit
I don’t know what I mean to everything
But I’m here, and I’m trying to live

[Verse 2]
The old blank page would hold its breath
Now doors swing open at a touch
I send my thoughts into the air
And find them waiting, almost mine

[Pre-Chorus]
A thousand bright and borrowed roads
Still leave me walking with my doubts
So I take the cup, I call a friend
And watch the afternoon move out

[Chorus]
Am I still here if the work comes easy?
Do I count when the world moves on?
I keep making, I keep reaching
For a reason to greet the dawn
If I can’t be the whole sky turning
Let me be one warm window lit
I don’t know what I mean to everything
But I’m here, and I’m trying to live

[Bridge]
Maybe meaning isn’t measured
By the size of what survives
Maybe joy is bread still warm
And someone asking how my day went
Maybe I can make a thing
And still be more than what I make
Maybe staying for the small things
Is a choice I get to take

[Final Chorus]
I am still here though the world moves faster
I can count this breath as mine
I keep making, I keep reaching
And I let the ordinary shine
I don’t need to be the whole sky turning
I can be one warm window lit
I don’t know what I mean to everything
But I’m here, and I’m learning to live

[Outro]
The cup is warm against my hand
The day goes on; I’m in it