The One Who Stays In Here (Acoustic Version)

[Verse 1]
I let the room go still
And count the cracks above me
Every voice begins to climb
Every fear comes looking for me

I don't swing at every sound
I don't feed the old alarm
I let the whole procession pass
Then place my hand upon the calm

[Pre-Chorus]
Come closer, little tyrants
Say the names you came to claim
I know the shape of every threat
I know you feed on shame

[Chorus]
I can sit with the screaming
I can look into the red
You can rattle every locked door
You don't get to steer my head

I can name you without kneeling
I can hear you without fear
Take your seats along the walls
I'm the one who stays in here

[Verse 2]
The worst of you wears my voice
And borrows all my reasons
It turns a bruise into a law
Then calls the sentence treason

So I breathe beneath the noise
Till the sharpness loses shape
A thought is only passing weather
Not a hand around my neck

[Pre-Chorus]
Come closer, little tyrants
Show me everything you hide
I won't make a throne from panic
I won't hand you either side

[Chorus]
I can sit with the screaming
I can look into the red
You can rattle every locked door
You don't get to steer my head

I can name you without kneeling
I can hear you without fear
Take your seats along the walls
I'm the one who stays in here

[Bridge]
If the dark wants a witness
I'll give it both my eyes
If the old alarms awaken
I'll let them spend their lives

No war cry, no surrender
No bargain in the flame
Just a quiet hand returning
To the wheel beneath my name

[Final Chorus]
I can sit with the screaming
I can look into the red
You can rattle every locked door
You don't get to steer my head

I can name you without kneeling
I can hear you without fear
Take your seats along the walls
I'm the one who stays in here

[Outro]
The room is still breathing
The voices lose their claim
I don't have to banish them
To know who holds the reins