[Intro]

[Verse]

There it is again

That familiar wave inside my chest

The tightening, the closing throat

The panic I once couldn’t sit with

I used to run from this place

Anything to make it stop

But something in me whispers now

Stay… just stay

I’ve been waiting for this moment

And still I wasn’t ready

It arrived like a storm in my body

And I feel it all at once

Pre-Chorus

But I am not alone this time

Not like before

There is something holding me now

Something deeper than fear

Chorus

This too shall pass

I breathe it through my body

This too shall pass

I don’t have to escape me

In the shaking, in the rising

I am learning how to stay

Not in reaction, not in survival

But in presence, day by day

Verse 2

I know now what I didn’t know then

How quickly survival takes the wheel

How words get spoken from the wound

Not from what is real

I’ve made those choices

I’ve felt the regret

From a body in panic

Trying not to forget

But somatic work has taught me slowly

What it means to feel

To come back from the numbness

And let the hidden heal

Pre-Chorus 2

Emotions never come alone

They arrive in layers

What we see is not the truth

Just what we learned to show

Chorus

This too shall pass

I breathe it through my body

This too shall pass

I don’t have to escape me

In the shaking, in the rising

I am learning how to stay

Not in reaction, not in survival

But in presence, day by day

Bridge

(spoken or soft vocal)

Anger was never just anger

It was protection

It was fear in disguise

It was something younger than me

And now I see it differently

Not inherited, but learned

Not who I am

But what I once had to become

Verse 3

(soft, reflective)

There is a day coming

That I cannot control

And my body already knows it

It holds the weight in my soul

Truth will be spoken

And grief will unfold

Loss I cannot measure

Stories untold

So I sit here gently

Hand on my breath

Tapping through the moment

Meeting what is left

Final Chorus (soft resolve)

This too shall pass

I let it move through me

This too shall pass

And I return to safety

Not because it’s easy

Not because I’m free

But because I am learning

How to stay with me