Light Through the Skin

[Intro] I breathe in a stranger’s skin, a ghost in my own frame Night folds around me, I’m the hallway and the flame [Verse 1] I wake inside a mirror that doesn’t show me right A rented face blinking in the scarce daylight Claws of doubt trace the edges of my name I’m a whisper on a scream, drowning in my own flame [Pre-Chorus] But something shifts when I say your name in the dark A flicker in the void, a thread through the stark [Chorus] Hold on, hold on, there’s a light through the noise A heartbeat finding a map for the broken voice If you can reach me, I won’t disappear I’ll stand, reclaim my skin, and breathe you near [Verse 2] You appeared like a door I forgot I could open A fragile smile, a promise that hope isn’t broken The monster leans back, surprised by the truth it can bear That I am more than this skin, more than the fear I wear [Pre-Chorus] You spoke a simple chord into the silent air And suddenly the halves of me learned to share [Chorus] Hold on, hold on, there’s a light through the noise A heartbeat finding a map for the broken voice If you can reach me, I won’t disappear I’ll stand, reclaim my skin, and breathe you near [Bridge] If I can touch the edge of what I am becoming Maybe the night won’t swallow what I’ve started from sunning You lift the weight of centuries off my chest And tell me I’m enough, not to forget, but to rest [Chorus] Hold on, hold on, there’s a light through the noise A heartbeat finding a map for the broken voice If you can reach me, I won’t disappear I’ll stand, reclaim my skin, and breathe you near [Outro] I’m here, not hollow, a survivor of the strain With you beside me, I’ll greet the day again