Except When It Does Songtext
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Except When It Does Songtext
You wake up
Same ceiling fan turning slow
Same coffee cup
Ring on the wood below
Bills still stacked on the counter
Dreams still taped to the wall
You tell yourself one day
Like it′s a number you can call
They say change is a staircase
One step one breath one year
But some nights feel like treading water
With no shoreline anywhere
Little habits little scars
Little risks that feel too far
You don't see it when it grows
Roots beneath the frozen snow
Life don′t change overnight
It bends slow like a river in the dark
You don't see the turning tide
You just feel it in your heart
Brick by brick inch by inch
Hope is quiet most the time
You blink and it's the same old road
Except when it′s not
Except when it does
You grind through
Mondays that look like last week
Head down
Faith moving underneath
Most growth don′t look like growth
Just another Thursday you survived
Another awkward I'll try
Another fear you didn′t hide
One call
One yes
One door left unlocked
One match in the dark
And the whole sky talks
It's mostly quiet
It doesn′t ask for applause
Just another small decision
That tilts your world off course
Seasons you swore were wasted
Ground you thought was stone
You were laying down foundations
You just couldn't see them grow
Every doubt you carried
Every long way home
Was water carving canyon
Slow
Life don′t change overnight
It bends slow like a river in the dark
You don't see the turning tide
You just feel it in your heart
Brick by brick inch by inch
Hope is quiet most the time
You blink and it's the same old road
Except when it′s not
Except when it does
It′s the job you almost didn't take
The house you thought you couldn′t buy
The yes you whispered scared to death
The tear you let yourself cry
It's the move
The vow
The first breath of your kid
The day you finally forgive
Years feel slow
Until one morning they overflow
Life don′t change overnight
Until the river breaks its banks
All the quiet years collide
All at once and everything's changed
All those bricks you laid in doubt
All those prayers you prayed in the dark
You thought you were barely moving
But you were becoming
You were becoming
Life don′t change overnight
Except when it does
Same ceiling fan turning slow
Same coffee cup
Ring on the wood below
Bills still stacked on the counter
Dreams still taped to the wall
You tell yourself one day
Like it′s a number you can call
They say change is a staircase
One step one breath one year
But some nights feel like treading water
With no shoreline anywhere
Little habits little scars
Little risks that feel too far
You don't see it when it grows
Roots beneath the frozen snow
Life don′t change overnight
It bends slow like a river in the dark
You don't see the turning tide
You just feel it in your heart
Brick by brick inch by inch
Hope is quiet most the time
You blink and it's the same old road
Except when it′s not
Except when it does
You grind through
Mondays that look like last week
Head down
Faith moving underneath
Most growth don′t look like growth
Just another Thursday you survived
Another awkward I'll try
Another fear you didn′t hide
One call
One yes
One door left unlocked
One match in the dark
And the whole sky talks
It's mostly quiet
It doesn′t ask for applause
Just another small decision
That tilts your world off course
Seasons you swore were wasted
Ground you thought was stone
You were laying down foundations
You just couldn't see them grow
Every doubt you carried
Every long way home
Was water carving canyon
Slow
Life don′t change overnight
It bends slow like a river in the dark
You don't see the turning tide
You just feel it in your heart
Brick by brick inch by inch
Hope is quiet most the time
You blink and it's the same old road
Except when it′s not
Except when it does
It′s the job you almost didn't take
The house you thought you couldn′t buy
The yes you whispered scared to death
The tear you let yourself cry
It's the move
The vow
The first breath of your kid
The day you finally forgive
Years feel slow
Until one morning they overflow
Life don′t change overnight
Until the river breaks its banks
All the quiet years collide
All at once and everything's changed
All those bricks you laid in doubt
All those prayers you prayed in the dark
You thought you were barely moving
But you were becoming
You were becoming
Life don′t change overnight
Except when it does
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