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ONE SURVIVABLE MOMENT lyrics
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Verse 1
There is a kind of hurt that narrows the room Turns ten open doors to one painted exit Not love for death, not hunger for an ending Just a mind worn thin, begging pain to stop speaking From outside, the sentence sounds final Inside, it sounds like relief with no rival Do not praise the edge or shame the feet near it Hear what the fear cannot say when it says, "finish"
Chorus
Stay for one survivable moment No grand forever, just this breath Let somebody carry the question Till pain is not the only answer left Stay for one survivable moment You do not have to name tomorrow Give me this minute, I will guard it We can make room around the sorrow
Verse 2
Do not hand me a slogan polished for the crisis Do not race to win an argument with anguish Sit where my silence keeps changing its language Say, "I believe you; your hurt is not a nuisance" Move danger out of reach, call trained support Stay beside me while we choose the next safe course Keep your voice plain when my thinking starts to fray Love becomes a verb when it protects the next day
Chorus
Stay for one survivable moment No grand forever, just this breath Let somebody carry the question Till pain is not the only answer left Stay for one survivable moment You do not have to name tomorrow Give me this minute, I will guard it We can make room around the sorrow
Verse 3
A chart can name the risk and miss the person A locked room can secure and deepen the desert Dignity and safety cannot be split apart Listen for the wound, then build a plan with heart Trauma, isolation, grief, and exhaustion Can turn a passing thought into a closed-loop option Care means skilled help, follow-through, connection Not one emergency call, then a lifetime of silence
Bridge
Pain says, "No road" Love says, "Take my hand" Care says, "One step" Three voices, one plan No promise that morning repairs what night broke Only this: you will not face this minute alone
Verse 4
The person is more than the hour that cornered them The loved one is more than the fear that ordered them The clinician is more than a checklist and a door A community is measured by what connection is for Empathy enters, but it does not surrender It names the ache without crowning the ending It keeps more choices open through the pressure One breath, one call, one room, one life together
Chorus
Stay for one survivable moment No grand forever, just this breath Let somebody carry the question Till pain is not the only answer left Stay for one survivable moment We do not have to solve tomorrow Give us this minute, we will guard it Make room for life beside the sorrow
Outro
Stay for one survivable moment
Inside the recording
There is a kind of hurt that narrows the room Turns ten open doors to one painted exit
Stay for one survivable moment No grand forever, just this breath
Stay for one survivable moment
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