[Intro - distant reverb-soaked clean guitar, single note plucked, warm pad swell underneath]

[soft ambient room tone, almost silence]

[Verse 1 - male lead, restrained clean delivery, intimate close-mic]

There's a small light on in a room I knew
Hands too little for the weight they hold
You're awake again and the house is still
Counting hours that no one told you to

You don't have the words for what you feel
So you keep it folded up and put it down
You think it means there's something wrong with you
It doesn't. It never did. I promise now.

[Pre-Chorus 1 - clean vocal lifting, swelling strings enter, soft side-chained pad]

And I know you can't hear me from where you are
But I'm reaching back across the years so far
Past every door I had to close
Past every name I had to lose

[Chorus 1 - clean lead, layered distant harmonies, lush melodic dubstep drop]

If I could sit beside you on that bed
If I could take that small hand into mine
If I could tell you only one thing true

You didn't know yet
You didn't know yet

If I could reach you

[Post-Chorus - guitar drone swell, sub-bass deepens, cinematic lift]

[wordless layered "ahh" harmonies, distant, choir-like]:

"ahh" "ahh" "ahh"

[Verse 2 - male lead, slightly more open delivery, building intensity]

There's a song you sang to no one in your head
Made up the words and made them mean something
You thought that you were strange for needing that
You weren't. You were already becoming someone.

You will spend a long time trying to be smaller
You will think the world wants less of what you are
I want you to know it doesn't matter what they said

You were never too much
You were exactly enough

[Pre-Chorus 2 - building harder, distorted swells creeping in, drums entering low]

And I know you can't hear me from where you are
But I'm reaching back across the years so far
Past every door I had to close
Past every name I had to lose

[Chorus 2 - fuller, harmonies wider, drop hits warmer and bigger]

If I could sit beside you on that bed
If I could take that small hand into mine
If I could tell you only one thing true

You weren't wrong to feel that much
You weren't wrong to feel that much

If I could reach you

[Breakdown - drums drop out, sustained strings hold, distant guitar drone, ambient texture]

[whispered close-mic, almost spoken]:

You're going to be okay
You're going to be okay
You're going to be loved
You're going to be loved

[long sustained pad swell building]

[Final Chorus - towering wall of sound, anguished cry vocal, full production, layered harmonies, distorted swells]

If I could sit beside you on that bed

[anguished cry layer]: OH —

If I could take that small hand into mine

[anguished cry layer]: OH —

If I could tell you only one thing true

I'm here
I made it
You make it

[full eruption]:

IF I COULD REACH YOU
IF I COULD REACH YOU
IF I COULD REACH YOU

[Outro - everything drops back to the opening texture, single clean guitar note, warm pad fading]

[breathed, almost gone]:

You make it.

[final pad swell, slow fade to silence]