You Were Never The Answer

YOU WERE NEVER THE ANSWER *[Verse 1]* I knew you in a place without a name Before the world could tell me what was real A quiet pull from somewhere far away A kind of love I didn't know I'd feel I never knew what I was looking for Or why your silence sounded like a song I only knew that somewhere in the dark Something in me had known you all along *[Pre-Chorus]* And I followed every whisper Through the stories and the signs Lost myself in ancient fairy tales And the corners of my mind *[Chorus]* You were never the answer You were the reason I began A door I couldn't see before A truth I couldn't understand I never needed you to find me Or to feel the way I do I just wanted you to know How far my heart has traveled Because of you *[Verse 2]* I fell through worlds I couldn't quite explain Tripped over thoughts I thought I understood I searched for something hidden in the strange And found a little beauty where I could Then numbers started speaking without words And broken lines began to intertwine I found a quiet symmetry in things I'd always thought were scattered out of line *[Pre-Chorus]* And every road I wandered Every question, every fall Led me somewhere past the feeling To the pattern in it all *[Chorus]* You were never the answer You were the reason I began A door I couldn't see before A truth I couldn't understand I never needed you to find me Or to feel the way I do I just wanted you to know How far my heart has traveled Because of you *[Bridge]* Maybe you were just a moment Maybe I was meant to see That love can be a doorway To a different kind of me I found a world inside a number Found a silence underneath the sound And every time I reached for something distant I discovered something I had found And if you ever wondered Why I never asked you to stay Some things are too beautiful To hold them that way *[Final Chorus]* You were never the answer But you changed the questions in my mind I went looking for a reason And found a universe inside I don't know where you came from Or if you ever felt it too But there's a part of who I am today That began with you *[Outro]* I won't ask you to remember I won't ask you to believe You don't have to understand What your silence gave to me I followed love through darkness Till the numbers led me through And after all these years After everything I've seen There's just one thing I wanted you to hear Thank you. For a door you never knew You opened. For a truth I never knew I'd find. And for a feeling That became A whole new way Of seeing life.