Load Bearing (Body) - Denial in the Static - Daniel 



(Verse 1)
My shoulders learned the weather
Before the storm arrived
My jaw became a locked door
My hands forgot to lie

There’s a pulse behind my temples
There’s a stone beneath my ribs
Every time the room starts falling
My body pays for it

I breathe it down
I hold it still
I teach the shaking not to spill

Then morning comes
I stand again

And everybody calls that healed

(Pre-Chorus)
But healing isn’t empty
Recovery leaves a seam
Every break I learn to carry
Changes what can carry me

(Chorus)
I raise the floor
They raise the weight
I learn to bend
They load the frame

I find my breath
I build again
And something new comes crashing in

Turn by turn
The floor gets higher
Mercy holds
But mercy tires

I keep returning
I keep repairing

But the body knows
what it costs
to keep becoming
load-bearing

(Verse 2)
Sleep doesn’t always reach me
Even when I close my eyes
There are muscles still on duty
There are alarms that never cry

My stomach holds the argument
My spine remembers every room
My chest keeps counting exits
Long after danger moves

And every time I make more space
Every time I widen ground
Something sees the stronger structure
And decides to pile more down

(Pre-Chorus)
So I oscillate through mercy
Catch the fall and find the line
Sink enough to stop the fracture
Rise enough to still be mine

(Chorus)
I raise the floor
They raise the weight
I learn to bend
They load the frame

I find my breath
I build again
And something new comes crashing in

Turn by turn
The floor gets higher
Mercy holds
But mercy tires

I keep returning
I keep repairing

But the body knows
what it costs
to keep becoming
load-bearing

(Bridge, quiet)
There is a difference
Between stronger
And untouched

A difference between healing
And never having hurt enough

Every scar that learns flexibility
Still remembers why it formed
Every nervous system trained for mercy
Still has to survive the storm

And I am tired
of my resilience
being mistaken
for infinite room

Tired of every stronger floor
becoming permission
for another fucking room

(Instrumental rise)

No.

Strength is not consent
Capacity is not debt
Recovery is not an invitation
To see what I can carry next

(Final Chorus)
I raise the floor
Because I choose
Not so the world
Can add more rooms

I learn to bend
So I don’t break
Not so you can measure
What else I’ll take

Turn by turn
The floor gets higher
Mercy holds
And mercy matters

But mercy is not endless
And care is not erasure

The body keeps the record
Of every weight I bore

Every time I found my footing
Every time I built the floor

And when I rise this time
I’m not rising to take more

I’m rising
so the weight
can finally learn

I am not
the floor.