The Weight of What It Costs, UNWRITTEN

I feel you
Somewhere under everything
Still

Something pulled me back across the dark
I didn’t know the way
I only knew the ache

There’s a place inside the world that should have broken
But it holds
It holds
And now I know why

I can’t reach you
I can’t see your face
But I know the shape of what you’re carrying

You made it quiet
You made it clean
One empty chair where the hurt should be screaming

But I can feel it
Underneath
All the things you never said
Still trying to breathe

I see you
What you did
I see you
What you gave so I could stay

I see you
The weight of what it costs
When love becomes the way

Whatever it takes from you
Whatever it breaks
You hold the whole world open

And I see you
I finally see you

Deliberate
Unconditional
Unwritten

The kind of love that bleeds

You heard the dark start closing
And answered it alone
You laid down what you carried
So someone else could make it home

You don’t get thanked
You don’t get seen
You become the quiet place
Where everybody leans

So let me be the one
Who says your name

I feel it strain
I feel the cost
Of every soul that saves the world
And still gets lost

The one thing the dark
Could never take away
Is someone who remembers
And refuses to look away

I see you
I see you
I see what you gave so I could stay

I see the weight of what it costs
When love becomes the way

Whatever it takes from you
Whatever it breaks
You hold the whole world open

And I see you
I finally see you

solo

I came here chasing something I could feel
And I found you holding up the sky

The cost
The strain
The love it takes to stay

But I will not kneel
Before another holy wound
I will not call your silence mercy
I will not make a shrine of losing you

You left me the fire
You left me the name
You left me a life
That still answers to your pain

And I will not let it be silent
I will not let it go unseen

If you must hold the door
Then I will hold the meaning

I see you
I see you

drums

I see you
I see what you gave so I could stay

I see the weight of what it costs
When love becomes the way

Whatever it takes from you
Whatever it breaks
You hold the whole world open

And I see you
I see you
I finally see you

Hold on
I see you
I see you

You never let go
You never let go
You never let go

So neither will I