Still My Religion

I used to think it passed through me, like
it didn't really stay long
noise in the walls, then quiet again, like
nothing ever went wrong

but it lingers in quiet ways, you know
just before you react
that space where you don't even notice
till you're already in that

so I learned not to fight it too much
not silence, not full sound
just something low in the background, like
it's always around

and it doesn't take it from me
I won't say that it does
but it changes how it holds me
when it's heavy, when it floods

and it finds me, every time, like
I don't even look for it
something shifts, something settles, and
I just let it sit

Music is my religion
it gives me what I need

Music is my religion
when I forget to breathe

Music is my religion
it can bring me to my knees

Music is my religion…

city moving underneath me
lights stretching into lines
everything in motion
but there's something keeping time

there's a rhythm in the distance
I don't try to control
I just let it pull me through it
like it already knows

and I don't need to name it
don't need to understand
it just meets me where I'm turning
when it slips out of my hands

you wouldn't notice from the outside
it don't look like much
but if it wasn't there behind me
I'd feel the loss of it

and it finds me, every time, like
I don't even look for it
something shifts, something settles, and
I just let it sit

Music is my religion
it gives me what I need

Music is my religion
when I forget to breathe

Music is my religion
it can bring me to my knees

Music is my religion…

I don't question it
don't dress it up
don't need to call it anything

somewhere between the silence
and whatever comes from it
there's something steady underneath

not a voice
not a sign
just something that stays in time

Music is my religion
it gives me what I need

Music is my religion
when I forget to breathe

Music is my religion
it can bring me to my knees

Music is my religion…

(piano outro)