BETWEEN HEAVEN AND THE GRAVE

Lyrics

(Verse 1) I was born beneath a wide sky With my feet pressed into clay Half of me was reaching upward Half was learning how to stay I felt thunder in the distance Felt the soil beneath my knees Learned that every breath is borrowed From a world that never keeps I have stood beside the dying I have watched new life arrive And somewhere in that narrow passage I began to understand why (Pre-Chorus) We are neither only spirit Nor the dust beneath our feet We are tension made conscious Where the unseen and the living meet (Chorus) Between heaven and the grave That is where I learn my name With one hand touching eternity And one hand buried in the rain Between heaven and the grave I refuse to split in two I carry earth inside my marrow And a sky I travel through Between heaven and the grave I become what both reveal Not escaping from the body Not denying what I feel (Verse 2) There are mornings full of wonder There are nights that taste like stone There are moments when the universe Feels unbearably alone I have asked the oldest questions To the ceiling in the dark Why we love what we can lose Why we break and still restart Why a body holds such beauty Knowing time will change its form Why the heart still risks devotion After surviving every storm (Pre-Chorus) Maybe meaning isn't waiting Somewhere far beyond the skin Maybe sacredness is born In how completely we step in (Chorus) Between heaven and the grave That is where I learn my name With one hand touching eternity And one hand buried in the rain Between heaven and the grave I refuse to split in two I carry earth inside my marrow And a sky I travel through Between heaven and the grave I become what both reveal Not escaping from the body Not denying what I feel (Verse 3) I have walked through rooms of mourning Where the air itself felt changed Where a photograph could open Every year that grief had saved I have felt a presence linger After language disappeared Not as proof I needed desperately But as something simply near And I learned the dead can teach us Without turning life away Every ending sharpens vision For the hours we still retain So I touch the living deeper Knowing nothing can be kept And I honour what has vanished Without following it yet (Bridge) Sky above me Soil beneath me Pulse between the two A body made of minerals A mind that reaches through No need to choose one kingdom No need to curse the other side The sacred can inhabit Every ordinary life The grave can teach attention The stars can widen sight And somewhere in the middle A human learns to hold both right (Breakdown) Bone Breath Rain Fire Loss Wonder Blood Desire A name written temporarily Across a moving earth A consciousness still searching For the measure of its worth (Verse 4) I don't need to leave this world To touch what feels beyond I have known eternity Inside a moment before dawn In a hand placed on a shoulder In a word that changed a life In the strange and quiet courage Of continuing through night If there is something higher Let it enter how I live Let it show itself in action In what I take and what I give And if the earth will claim me When the final hour arrives Then let every year before it Be completely, fiercely lived (Final Chorus) Between heaven and the grave I no longer ask for sides I let mortality remind me Why awareness must be alive Between heaven and the grave Every heartbeat has a cost Every meeting gains a meaning Because everything can be lost Between heaven and the grave There is no lesser realm There is flesh There is mystery There is consciousness at the helm Between heaven and the grave I stand without disguise Grounded in the earth below me Open to the endless sky (Outro) One day the soil will know me One night the stars will remain The world will keep on turning Without remembering my name So while I am here I will touch I will witness I will choose I will live In the narrow, sacred distance Between heaven And the grave