And You Held Me
Nova Rai · Haresalam, 8 of 23
The story
I spent my life on stages. Then one night by a fire, someone held me, not too tight and not too far, and I stopped performing. I never knew silence had a shape that fit me. The deepest love doesn't ask you to sing. It lets you lean in, and for the first time, you stay.
Lyrics
I felt alive
Not like a lover holds
But like the fire holds the dark
Cheek to cheek
I never knew
That silence had a shape
That fit the space I'd fallen through
Who are you
To make me still?
Who are you
To make me feel
Something more than love
More than words
More than every stage
I never deserved?
And you held me
Like the universe holds the stars
Not too tight, not too far
Just enough to know
I don't have to go
And you held me
Like the river holds the stone
Worn and warm and overgrown
And I leaned in
And you let me lean in
I smelled like rain
On summer ground
Like something old
That just was found
Petrichor and innocence
A life of stages, no defense
But here beside you
In the glow
I stopped performing
Let it go
The warmth, I love you
In a way you cannot love
The universe has ways to collapse
Has ways to expand above
I want to stay
I want to go
But your arms said
You don't have to know
And you held me
Like the fire holds the night
Not to own it, not to fight
Just to keep it
Warm and bright
And you held me
Like a prayer holds a name
Whispered once, then once again
And I felt it
And it came
I saw your friends
I saw them all
The quiet one who walked the trail
The dark one sleeping by the wall
The turtle at the water's edge
The bird with wings he wouldn't spread
The old woman dreaming on a chest
The blue man looking at his feet
And none of them asked me to sing
And none of them needed a thing
And that's when I knew
That's when I broke
Not from sadness
From the sweetest kind of hope
And you held me
And I held you
Two small things
The universe moved through
Not a love song
Something more
The sound the ocean makes
Before it finds the shore
And you held me
At 3:33
In a valley
That's just you and me
And I whispered
What I couldn't say
But one day
A song will know the way
And you held me
And I stayed
For the first time
I stayed
And the fire held the dark
And the dark held the stars
And the stars held the silence
And the silence
Held
Us