## Song 04: Pause Before the Record

[Verse 1]  
The room says now, the bell says wait,  
The floor is bending at the gate,  
The mouth wants fire, the hand wants stone,  
But truth needs space to stand alone.  

[Chorus]  
Pause before the record,  
Pause before the claim,  
If pressure owns the answer,  
Do not lend it name.  

Pause before the record,  
Let the gate repair,  
Silence is a lantern  
When distortion fills the air.  

[Bridge]  
I am not late.  
I am not lost.  
I am counting the cost.  
I am holding the floor  
Before I open the door.  

[Final Chorus]  
Pause before the record,  
Mercy is the room,  
Reason lights the threshold,  
Then the answer blooms.