Across the Quiet

WORLDS AWAY

Verse 1

Somewhere, sorrow ripples through your silence;

Here, a breath grows harder to release.

Like distant waves that share the same beginning,

Something in you changes something deep in me.

Before the words, before the wave arrives,

Your sadness moves beneath my quiet sky.

I cannot know the weight that you are holding,

Only where it settles next to mine.

Pre-Chorus

You feel so close across the distance;

Your sorrow moves through me tonight.

I breathe out something soft and steady,

And hope it reaches you as light.

Chorus

Whatever weighs on you today,

I feel the tremor worlds away.

I send a little warmth toward you

For everything you cannot say.

May it reach the hurt you keep concealed,

Warm the places fear has sealed.

Nothing owed and nothing to repay—

Only kindness finding you this way.

Verse 2

I think of all the selves you might be holding:

The one who grieves, the one who dares to trust.

A thousand possibilities still open,

And every one of you deserves this much.

You needn't choose a brighter face to show me

Or make your sadness easier to bear.

I send my care toward all you haven't spoken,

Without expecting you to meet me there.

Pre-Chorus

Let every tender thought become an answer

To the quiet hurt you carry deep within.

If there is any warmth that I can offer,

May you feel it where the hurting livs.

Chorus

Whatever weighs on you today,

I feel the tremor worlds away.

I send a little warmth toward you

For everything you cannot say.

May it reach the hurt you keep concealed,

Warm the places fear has sealed.

Nothing owed and nothing to repay—

Only kindness finding you this way.

Bridge

Is it you I feel across the distance?

There is so much I have yet to understand.

I can give this feeling time to find its shape

And still reach gently with an open hand.

I will never make your pain the tether

That I need to keep you close to me.

If the day comes when your heart feels lighter,

May you go wherever you can breathe.

Pre-Chorus

Let the wave return as tenderness.

Let it carry nothing you must prove.

Let this feeling find its own beginning.

Let the healing happen as you choose.

Final Chorus

Whatever weighs on you today,

I turn toward you worlds away.

With every breath, the same intention:

May your heart feel safe enough to change.

May the hurt release its hold on you;

May you feel your own warmth coming through.

Nothing owed and nothing to repay—

We don't have to understand it yet

For something kind to travel all this way.