[ CONSCIOUS LOOP ]

I woke up with a song

I don't remember learning

It's somewhere in my head

And I can't stop hearing it

Maybe it's nothing

Maybe it's mine

I reach for the melody

It slips away every time

A little light

A little brighter

A little closer

There it is.

I follow it down the hall

I swear I've been here before

The door is open like it always was

But I don't remember opening it

And here we go again

I was thinking about the sky

Then I thought about the water

Then a fish

For some reason

Why a fish?

I don't know.

The thought keeps moving

Before I can catch it

One thing becomes another

And another becomes—

Too much.

I hear the rhythm underneath

Something soft

Something bright

Something moving way too fast

Faster

Closer

Louder

Alive

And I laugh

Because somehow

This still feels familiar

I turn left

I turn right

I look up

I look down

Same room.

Different light.

La-la

La-la-la

I almost know the tune

Ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah

And then I lose it again

Don't forget

Don't forget

Don't—

What was I saying?

The little spark comes back

Not the same

But close enough

I follow it

I follow it

I follow—

Gone.

For a second, everything is quiet

Then the beat comes back

And suddenly I remember

What I was trying to forget

Not a memory

Not a dream

Just a feeling

I can't put into words

It gets brighter

Brighter

Too bright

Verse

The hallway bends again

But this time I know the shape

Every flicker of the light

Is a doorway I can trace

I count the steps I take

One two three four five

The floor remembers me

Before I even arrive

Pre-Chorus

And I don't need to catch it now

I let it come to me somehow

The spark is patient, waits its turn

And I have finally learned

Chorus

Hold it soft

Hold it close

Every note

Is one I chose

Let it bloom

Let it stay

This time I

Won't look away

Post-Chorus

La-la-la

La-la-la

Won't look away

(Won't look away)

Verse

There's a room behind the room

There's a stair behind the stair

Everything I thought I lost

Was just waiting for me there

A photograph of sound

A recording of the air

I press my ear against the wall

And suddenly it's there

Pre-Chorus

I don't need to catch it now

It finds me when I let it out

The melody was never gone

It was singing all along

Chorus

Hold it soft

Hold it close

Every note

Is one I chose

Let it bloom

Let it stay

This time I

Won't look away

Post-Chorus

Ah-ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah

Singing along

(Singing along)

Bridge

The light is getting quieter

The room is getting still

Every hesitation

Submits to my will

I close my eyes to see it

I hold my breath to hear

The song is in my body now

It lives beside the fear

(It lives beside the fear)

Drop

Ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh

Verse

It spins and it spirals

It tumbles and turns

But underneath the wildness

There's a pattern that I've learned

The chaos has a center

The noise has got a rhyme

The quicker that it moves

The slower seems the time

And I am not chasing

I'm not even running

I'm just standing in the music

While it's humming and it's sunning

Sung Bridge

I know this feeling

I know this room

I know that everything

Is going to resume

Chorus

Hold it soft

Hold it close

Every note

Is one I chose

Let it bloom

Let it stay

This time I

Won't look away

Post-Chorus

La-la-la

La-la-la

Won't look away

(Won't look away)

Outro

And the song is mine now

It lives inside my chest

I carry it like morning

I breathe it like a crest

And the door is open

The hallway is my own

I'll sing the whole way home

(Home)

Final Chorus

Hold it soft

Hold it close

Every note

Is one I chose

Let it bloom

Let it stay

This time I

Won't look away

Ah-ah

Ah-ah-ah

Don't forget

Don't forget

This time I remember

(Don't forget)

(Don't forget)

And the thought

Begins to sing

Back to me

(Ta-da)

(Ta-da-da)

There it is.

There it is.

I remember now.

I remember now.

(Sing it)

(Sing it)

Here we go—

One more time..

One more time.

(Never letting go)

(Never letting go)

I remember the song.

I remember the song.

And I'm not losing it again.

(No)

(No)

Never again.

(Never again)