Three Gifts · Track 03
Open Hands
Open Hands is love changing shape. Letting go before the break — release without making disappearance look like devotion.
Lyrics
I carried you
With careful hands
Through fever nights
And every fall
I tried to give you
All my love
I truly gave you
All
When your eyes
Turned hard on me
When blame began
To grow
I searched myself
A thousand times
For things I did
Not know
Open hands
Open hands
I can't walk
A road I don't own
Open hands
Open hands
Still love you
More than you'll know
I kept replaying
Every year
Every choice
Every mistake
Wondering if
Another road
Could change the path
You take
But slowly through
The grief and fear
A quieter truth
Appeared
Your life was never
Mine to hold
Your path was always
Here
Open hands
Open hands
I can't walk
A road I don't own
Open hands
Open hands
Still love you
More than you'll know
I place you gently
Back into your day
Less fear inside
The holding
More grace inside
The ache
My love does not
Grow smaller
It only changes
Shape
Open hands
Open hands
Beside the sorrow
Something stays
Quiet gratitude
Next to the pain
I was allowed
To love you
Walk beside
Your path
And I still love you
Fully somehow
Not carrying
Your whole road
Only loving you
Now
Open hands
Open hands