[INTRO] [Soft piano. Room tone. A single low string note fades in] [VERSE 1] [Piano only. Close vocal. Intimate] You stand there like a question Like a door I’ve never known There’s a quiet in your breathing Like you built it on your own Your eyes don’t shout for attention They don’t beg to be believed They just hold their steady lantern Like they’re waiting there for me I don’t want your polished answers Or the armor that you wear I want the fragile architecture Of the silence that you spare [PRE-CHORUS] [Low strings enter. Subtle swell] Let the world keep all its thunder Let it rush and disappear I would rather sit and wonder At the way you draw me near [CHORUS] [Full strings bloom. Drums enter softly. Vocal rises.] I will learn you Like a language born at sea Every tide that pulls you under Every shore that sets you free I will learn you All the edges, all the hues Not to change a single color Just to know the shade of you And if it takes my lifetime To hear what you don’t say I will learn you Until my dying day [VERSE 2] Show me where your courage trembles Where it bends but doesn’t break Tell me what you buried deeply Just to keep the peace you make Let me trace the hidden fractures With a careful, steady hand Not to fix what isn’t broken Just to finally understand [PRE-CHORUS] You don’t have to turn heroic You don’t have to prove your worth Lay your history before me I will treat it like it’s sacred earth [CHORUS] I will learn you Like the turning of the sky Every shadow of your winter Every summer in your eyes I will learn you Like a promise carved in stone Not to claim you as my shelter But to make your storms my own And if the night grows heavy And the light is hard to hold I will learn you Even when we both grow old [BREAK] [Everything drops out. Just a single piano note. Breath] [BRIDGE] When your voice forgets its power When your hands begin to shake When the past comes like a wildfire Through the walls you tried to make When you fear you are too complex Too unravelled to be loved Let me be the one who listens When the world has heard enough You are not a puzzle missing pieces You are poetry in blood [BUILD] I don’t need to own your future I don’t need to hold your chains I just want to know the rhythm Of the beating in your veins [FINAL CHORUS] [Key change] I will learn you Like the stars learn how to shine Every flicker of your doubt Every fault line in your spine I will learn you Till there’s nothing left unknown Not to conquer or contain you But to call your truth my home If the years rewrite our bodies If the mirror tells us lies I will learn you In the language of your sighs And when the world grows quiet And the noise has slipped away I will learn you In the dark and in the day [OUTRO] [Orchestra falls away. Just piano + soft strings] You don’t have to be a mystery For me to stay I will learn you… Anyway. [Final suspended chord. Silence]

I Will Learn You