Without Applause - Daniel with Luna
Verse 1
Some things settle deep and never leave
They just change shape with the years in me
A name, a look, a door half closed
A kind of hurt that quiet knows

You keep on going because you do
Not from courage, just because it’s true
Some things fade and some remain
Some just learn to live with pain

Pre-Chorus
No grand words
No grand design
Just the weight that outlasts time

Chorus
I carry what I can’t betray
The love, the loss, the weight, the cost
No one sees it when you hold the line
You just keep standing
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Verse 2
There are parts of life you never choose
Only how much of yourself you lose
Holding on and letting go
Start to look the same up close

I don’t know if strong is right
It just gets hard to tell by night
What became scar, what became skin
What I still keep folded in

Pre-Chorus
No bright meaning
No clean cause
Just what remains
Without applause

Chorus
I carry what I can’t betray
The love, the loss, the weight, the cost
No one sees it when you hold the line
You just keep standing
Without applause

Bridge
Maybe that’s all some lives become
Not victory, not being undone
Just one more day of bearing it
Of speaking low, of not quite quitting
And if there’s grace in any part
It isn’t glory, it’s the heart
Still making room for what was lost
Still beating on
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Final Chorus
I carry what I can’t betray
The love, the loss, the weight, the cost
No one sees it when you hold the line
You just keep standing
Without applause

Outro
Without applause
Without a sound
Just what stays
And won’t go down