Redraw the Dawn (by Al’Clifford Winfrey)

Intro

Mm

Mm-hmm

Oh-oh

Verse 1

I grew up asking why the sky holds its blue

watching my grandmother stir the pot and the truth

she said child the answer ain't the point of the trip

it's the turning of the handle and the loosening grip

I kept a notebook of questions I couldn't pronounce

kept a little bit of wonder when the world said bounce

Pre-Chorus

Every time I circled back

I could see a little more

Every corner that I turned

put a window in the wall

Chorus

I am the mirror

I am the spiral

I take what burned me

and I make it a title

Not carved in stone

but carved in my hands

I'm building a doorway

between the known and the vast

I don't chase the blueprint

just because it's drawn

I read the whole pattern

then I redraw the dawn

From asker to maker

from question to form

I'm the architect of the mirror

walking through the storm

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh

Oh-oh

Redraw the dawn

Oh-oh

Verse 2

I sat logic at my table right beside my faith

one poured the measure one poured the grace

I studied every symbol then I studied the hand

studied all the systems then I questioned the plan

Cause knowing ain't nothing if it sits in a frame

I gotta make it breathe I gotta give it a name

Pre-Chorus

I kept coming back around

to the riddles I outgrew

but the circle kept on telling me

you never come back the same

Chorus

I am the mirror

I am the spiral

I take what burned me

and I make it a title

Not carved in stone

but carved in my hands

I'm building a doorway

between the known and the vast

I don't chase the blueprint

just because it's drawn

I read the whole pattern

then I redraw the dawn

From asker to maker

from question to form

I'm the architect of the mirror

walking through the storm

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh

Oh-oh

Redraw the dawn

Oh-oh

Bridge

Maybe the point

was never knowing it all

Maybe the point

was learning how to see

Maybe the library

was never out there

Maybe every door I opened

was opening me

Break

Maybe I never had to read every page

Maybe I just had to turn it

Final Chorus

I AM THE MIRROR

I AM THE SPIRAL

Every fall made the building taller

Every question took me farther

I AM THE BRIDGE

I AM THE FLAME

Turning thought into shape

turning vision into a name

I don't chase the blueprint

just because it's drawn

I read the whole pattern

then I redraw the dawn

Seeker

Builder

Architect

Light

I'm the architect of the mirror

and I'm still walking tonight