Quiet Woman

[Verse 1] She laughs a little easier now At things that used to need permission Takes the long way, no explanation Finds herself in small decisions Something in her changed its axis Not the falling — just the angle What she thought was losing balance Turned out just to be untangling [Pre-Chorus] Her hands look different lately She studies them like maps All the places she stopped going All the ground she's taking back The self she left in hallways She's been finding piece by piece Turns out she was never missing Just on loan to someone's peace [Chorus] Watch her move like no one's counting Like her body learned to trust her Something settled in her shoulders Nobody's weight left to adjust to She's not healed and she's not broken Just a woman in her own skin Carrying what can't be spoken Finally letting light begin [Verse 2] She used to shrink before she spoke Fold her edges into corners Now her voice lands where she aims it Nothing borrowed, nothing foreign There's a theory she's been holding That the wound itself was doorway That the thing she thought was ending Was the universe reordering [Pre-Chorus] She stopped explaining her own weather Stopped translating what she carries Some truths live below the language In the body where it varies The way a shoulder holds a history The way a breath can mean surrender She just lets herself be complicated Quietly, and without gender [Chorus] Watch her move like no one's counting Like her body learned to trust her Something softer, something older In the way she needs no witness She's not chasing any version Just existing in the question Who she is when no one's looking That's the only one worth knowing [Bridge] Maybe freedom isn't wide open Maybe it's the door you don't walk through Maybe solitude's not absence Maybe it's the clearest kind of truth She used to fear her own reflection Now she sits with it like weather Lets it pass without a verdict Calls it hers and calls it ether [Outro] She takes the long way She takes the long way Not lost Just choosing where the road goes