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Fragile Things Still Burn
- //I had this in my privates for a few days now and forgot to post it, my bad guys T_T
- Verse 1
- I woke up carrying the weight of every version of myself I couldn’t be,
- All the almosts, all the maybes, all the doors that never opened quietly.
- The world was already speaking in sirens, headlines, promises it couldn’t keep,
- And I wondered how something so beautiful learned to hurt us in our sleep.
- They say the universe is cold and indifferent to the bones inside our skin,
- But it keeps giving us mornings, like it hasn’t given up on us yet again.
- Pre Chorus
- If meaning is just something we invent to survive the fall,
- Why does my chest still ache for truth when I’m alone at all?
- Chorus
- Life is a shadow learning how to hold the light,
- A broken compass pointing somewhere past the night.
- We are made of endings, but we walk like beginnings too,
- Still choosing love like it’s a radical thing to do.
- And if hope is fragile, then let it be—
- So am I, so are we.
- Verse 2
- I’ve seen faith collapse in empty rooms and rebuild itself in laughter,
- Watched people lose everything and still believe in “after.”
- We measure success in numbers, but grief in sleepless nights,
- We chase the future like it owes us something we can’t quite define.
- Every heart I’ve known is a battlefield disguised as skin,
- Still brave enough to open up and let the chaos in.
- Pre Chorus
- They tell us, “Be realistic, don’t expect too much,”
- But no one ever survived by giving up on touch.
- Chorus
- Life is a shadow learning how to hold the light,
- A quiet scream that says, “I’m still here, I’ll fight.”
- We’re made of questions that will never all be solved,
- Still reaching for each other like that’s how we evolve.
- And if hope is fragile, then let it be—
- It keeps choosing me.
- Bridge
- Maybe darkness isn’t evil, maybe it’s just depth,
- A reminder that each breath is standing next to death.
- Maybe love is not the answer, but the risk we’re meant to take,
- Knowing every bond is breakable and choosing it anyway.
- If nothing lasts forever, then this moment is divine,
- Every second burning briefly like a match against time.
- Verse 3
- I don’t need the universe to promise I’ll be okay,
- I just need it to remind me that I’m allowed to stay.
- That even when I’m tired of carrying my name,
- There’s something holy in continuing despite the pain.
- We’re not here to be perfect, we’re here to be real,
- To let the world leave its fingerprints on how we feel.
- Final Chorus
- Life is a shadow learning how to hold the light,
- A soft “yes” whispered in the middle of the fight.
- We are not the sum of all the times we fell apart,
- We are the courage it takes to restart the heart.
- And if hope is fragile, then let it be—
- It survives in you, it survives in me.
- Outro
- When the silence asks what all of this was for,
- Say we loved, we tried, we opened one more door.
- Say we stood in the dark and dared to see,
- That being alive was reason enough to be.
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