If You Ask Me What Life Was

If you ask me what life was

It was iron on my chest, it was winter in my lungs

Every hallway had no doors

Every step was just a weight I carried on

I spoke in echoes to an empty room

Counted daylight like a borrowed truth

But you walked in, and the clocks learned how to move

You said my name, and the night made room

If you ask me about life, I'll tell you the hell I knew

Ash in my mouth, storms in my shoes

But you put a lighthouse where my ribs once bruised

Held the broken map, drew a brighter route

I was falling through the fire, burning without end

You became the water, the wind, my friend

If you ask me about life

I'll say I lived because of you

I kept a list of almosts

Paper birds that never found the sky

Fear built a quiet fortress

Brick by lonely brick and silent nights

You didn't promise miracles or saints

You stayed, you held, you learned my pace

You taught my hands to open, not to fight

You turned my no-ends into lines of light

If you ask me about life, I'll tell you the hell I knew

Ash in my mouth, storms in my shoes

But you put a lighthouse where my ribs once bruised

Held the broken map, drew a brighter route

I was falling through the fire, burning without end

You became the water, the wind, my friend

If you ask me about life

I'll say I lived because of you

Let the past keep all its teeth

We'll walk by, unafraid to bleed

Every scar is just a page we turned

Proof that even coal can learn to burn

Warm

Mmm, say my name the way you do

Mmm, I'll believe the world is true

If you ask me about life, I'll name the storm and then

I'll name the hand that reached me in the end

You were the quiet that the fire couldn't kill

The answer when the world went still

If you ask me about life

I'll say I lived, because you willed me to

If you ask me what life is now

It's the road we draw from here to now

It's you