Room to Breathe (Treeprog)

progressive rock psychedelic rock blues
Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I left the house before the heat
Could press its thumb on me
The screen door sighed like it knew my name
But not the one I need

A carton of milk, a cracked blue mug
A key in a coat I don't wear
The sun sat low in the laundry wires
And pulled my thoughts out there

[Pre-Chorus]
I keep asking what this means
When the mirror blurs my face
If I’m only made of habit
Why do I still crave a place

[Chorus]
Give me room to breathe
Give me room to breathe
I’m not a machine
I’m a question with a pulse

Give me room to breathe
Give me room to breathe
If the road keeps changing
Let it change me too

[Verse 2]
My father talked in kitchen truths
All ash and Bible light
My mother wore her worry thin
And folded it each night

I watched the years stack up like plates
Then vanish when they fell
Now every answer I once held
Feels like a broken shell

[Pre-Chorus]
Still I hear that old soft call
From behind the oil-stained glass
Saying every door that opens
Has to leave the frame at last

[Chorus]
Give me room to breathe
Give me room to breathe
I’m not a machine
I’m a question with a pulse

Give me room to breathe
Give me room to breathe
If the road keeps changing
Let it change me too

[Bridge]
[Slow build]
I chased the gold inside the clock
Found dust instead of fire
But dust can turn the morning brown
And feed the climbing briar

So let the doubts come in a wave
Let them crash and lose their teeth
I’ve been a closed-up clenched-up fist
I want to become relief

[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
Now I stand where the gravel ends
And watch the river split
One branch runs to the work I know
One drifts where I can't sit

Maybe meaning is not a wall
But the space between the stone
Maybe life is not the final word
But learning how to roam

[Chorus]
Give me room to breathe
Give me room to breathe
I’m not a machine
I’m a question with a pulse

Give me room to breathe
Give me room to breathe
If the road keeps changing
Let it change me too

[Outro]
Let it change me
Let it change me
I can hear it now
Let it change me