Caleb's Song

VERSE 1
The night is moving through me
like water through a broken door.
All the things I couldn't say
are lifting from the floor.
I've carried names like ashes,
some were prayers, some were wounds.
Some became a song
I could not sing until now.
CHORUS
Go, go, go—
let the dark give way.
There are fires we survive
and fires that show the way.
Go, go, go—
there's nothing left to prove.
What the fire could not destroy
is what remains to love.
VERSE 2
I've crossed some bitter water.
I've slept beside the shore.
Not every door was meant to open.
I don't knock anymore.
There were men I made into miracles,
ghosts I called my own.
Somewhere behind me
a prison door is closing.
I don't turn to see
who is walking away.
BRIDGE
If you find me on the far shore,
don't ask me where I've been.
I'll bring you what is left of me.
You bring what you have been.
No promises of forever,
no salvation in a name.
Only two hands reaching outward
through the remnants of the flame.
I've wanted to be chosen.
I've wanted to be saved.
Now I want to stand beside you
with nothing left to trade.
FINAL CHORUS
Go, go, go—
through the ashes, through the blue.
What survives the fire changes.
What survives the fire is true.
Go, go, go—
there is music in the flame.
I came through it bearing nothing
but my body and my name.
OUTRO
And somewhere beyond the burning,
where the water has grown still,
I will hear the horses moving.
I will hear them on the hill.
I will turn toward that sound.
I will go.