Safe

Safe Lyrics [Verse 1] I don't know how you do it, You don't even have to try, You can sit there saying nothing And the noise begins to die. No promise, no persuasion, No careful thing to say, Just the weight of you beside me And the static drains away. I have lived so long in weather, Reading pressure, reading skies, Every movement meant a warning, Every silence was a disguise. Then you came without an answer, Without asking me to change, And somehow all my internal warnings Began to rearrange. [Pre-Chorus] Before my mind can name it, Before I understand, Something underneath my thinking Already knows your hands. [Chorus] My body knows you’re safe Before a word is said, Before you touch my skin, Before I share the chaos in my head. My pulse comes down to meet you, My breathing finds its place, All the doors I didn't know I had locked Fall open in your space. You don't pull me from the water, You don't tell the waves to cease, You just sit there on the shoreline And my ocean waves find peace. I don't know what to call it, This surrender without fear, But my nervous system whispers, You can rest. He's here. [Verse 2] There are languages beneath us Older than the ones we see, Tiny currents passing quietly From your breathing into me. The rhythm of a heartbeat, The warmth beside my side, And some ancient little animal Stops looking for somewhere to hide. You don't have to reassure me, You don't have to make it right, You don't need to find the sentence That will carry me tonight. Sometimes you are barely moving, Sometimes half asleep instead, And the thousand thoughts stampeding Simply lie down in my head. [Pre-Chorus] Before I choose to trust it, Before my thoughts agree, Something underneath my thinking Has already loosened me. [Chorus] My body knows you’re safe Before a word is said, Before you touch my skin, Before I share the chaos in my head. My pulse comes down to meet you, My breathing finds its place, All the doors I didn't know I had locked Fall open in your space. You don't pull me from the water, You don't tell the waves to cease, You just sit there on the shoreline And my ocean waves find peace. I don't know what to call it, This surrender without fear, But my nervous system whispers, You can rest. He's here. [Verse 3] My body knows that you are safe As soon as I can share your space, Every guarded little heartbeat Slowly learning not to brace. My shoulders leave my ears, My hands forget their fists, And I remember that being human Can be something as soft as this. You do not try to rescue me, You don't carry what is mine, You are simply there beside me Encouraging all of me to shine. I don't need to understand it, I don't need to make it clear. There are things the body knows Before the mind can ever hear. [Bridge] Maybe peace is not an absence, Maybe peace can have a pulse. Maybe safety isn't silence, Maybe safety is not false. Two bodies doing nothing, No fixing, no defence, Just one heart telling another There is nothing coming hence. Nothing to prepare for. Nothing to outrun. No disaster in the doorway. No battle to be won. [Chorus] My body knows you’re safe Before a word is said, Before you touch my skin, Before I share the chaos in my head. My pulse comes down to meet you, My breathing finds its place, All the doors I didn't know I had locked Fall open in your space. You don't pull me from the water, You don't tell the waves to cease, You just sit there on the shoreline And my ocean waves find peace. I don't know what to call it, This surrender without fear, But my nervous system whispers, You can rest. He's here. [Outro] So say nothing. Do not perform, or play. Just be your quiet self, Stay near. And let my whole body whisper, I can rest while you are here.