Seasons Past-Layla

[00:16.32]I learned the art of keeping clocks alive [00:20.85]Winding hours that were never mine [00:25.11]Polished silence, fed the dark [00:27.51]Called it devotion, called it time [00:33.81]I wore the weight of ordinary days [00:38.34]Turned need into a practiced grace [00:42.87]You mistook the giving hand [00:45.33]For something that would never ache [00:51.87]There’s a difference, hard to name [00:55.35]Between sustaining and decay [01:00.06]Some things rot in open air [01:04.14]Some rot dressed as faith [01:09.21]I don’t break [01:13.32]I refine [01:13.50]Leave the excess behind [01:17.67]What you touched [01:18.84]What you spent [01:19.83]Was the future I resigned [01:27.12]I don’t rage [01:28.62]I release [01:30.60]Like a season past its lease [01:34.92]What you wanted wasn’t love [01:39.27]It was access, it was ease [01:51.03]You spoke in currencies I didn’t trade [01:55.56]Soft exchanges, borrowed praise [02:00.18]Every door you learned to open [02:03.42]Led you further from my name [02:09.51]I kept the house from caving in [02:11.88]Held the shape you couldn’t live [02:17.85]Funny how survival looks [02:20.19]Like surrender from within [02:22.71]Care is quiet, care is slow [02:31.29]Until it learns it’s being sold [02:34.86]What I thought was loyalty [02:36.06]Was debt you never owed [02:43.95]I don’t break [02:48.81]I refine [02:48.99]Leave the excess behind [02:52.38]What you touched [02:53.61]What you spent [02:54.57]Was the future I resigned [03:01.20]I don’t rage [03:05.31]I release [03:05.49]Like a season past its lease [03:09.63]What you wanted wasn’t love [03:14.04]It was access, it was ease [03:19.65]No confession, no display [03:24.06]I don’t need the why or when [03:28.08]If something feeds on what I am [03:31.02]I stop calling it a man [03:35.64]I don’t break [03:37.77]I conclude [03:39.81]Let the quiet tell the truth [03:44.10]What I lost I outgrew [03:48.42]What I kept was me, not you