Awareness Is Agency

Verse 1

They call this mind a passenger

A stranger hitching rides

But every choice I've carried

Lives in these open eyes

The fever that imagined

A way to dull the ache

Was never leeching from the dark

It built the dam to break

Pre-Chorus

And if a wound could think

It wouldn't beg for rain

It would learn the crooked road

And trace its way back home again

Chorus

Consciousness isn't a parasite

It's the host that feels the sting

Claws through the cold for something more

And teaches suffering to sing

Awareness is agency

Not a drain but a door

The mind that chooses not to hurt

Is the one worth living for

Post-Chorus

Feel it feel it feel it beat

Thought can break the heat

Oh the light we keep

Verse 2

The creature in the meadow

Cannot hold tomorrow's name

It knows the fear but not the fix

The hunger and the flame

We carry all their crying

In a cortex made of storms

To plot a gentler ending

Before the lightning forms

Pre-Chorus

So build the crooked road

And trace its way back home

Every scar a compass

Every wound a lesson shown

Chorus

Consciousness isn't a parasite

It's the host that feels the sting

Claws through the cold for something more

And teaches suffering to sing

Awareness is agency

Not a drain but a door

The mind that chooses not to hurt

Is the one worth living for

Bridge

We are the sentinel

Standing watch for all the weak

Every plan a prayer

Every care a different beat

Chorus

Consciousness isn't a parasite

It's the host that feels the sting

Claws through the cold for something more

And teaches suffering to sing

Awareness is agency

Not a drain but a door

The mind that chooses not to hurt

Is the one worth living for