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What I was fell away behind,
The names, the roles, the masks, the guise,
I let it all go, it could never be mine.
No hold, no ground, no image to stay,
Yet in falling, I felt: Nothing set me free that way.
Only a quiet being, so still and clear,
No “I am this,” just “I am here.”
(Chorus)
I am, that’s enough, I am complete,
No goal, no shine, no deceit.
No dream that stays, no image that falls,
Just this being that gently calls.
(Verse 2)
I searched for myself in all that was,
In titles, in dreams, in an ideal’s cause.
But all that glitters was never of weight,
It faded and shattered, but I didn’t break.
I fell into silence, into a vast nothingness,
No comfort, no praise, no light to bless.
Yet this “I am” is more than it seems,
It holds me softly, it weaves my dreams.
(Chorus)
I am, that’s enough, I am complete,
No goal, no shine, no deceit.
No dream that stays, no image that falls,
Just this being that gently calls.
(Bridge)
No name, no word can define who I am,
I am not the role, not the guise, not the gain.
Yet there is a space, so still and pure,
A place where I always will endure.
And in this depth, in this ground,
Lies all that’s whole, perfectly round.
No “more,” no “less,” nothing that lures,
Only the “I am” that in me endures.
(Chorus – Variation)
I am, that’s enough, I am complete,
No wish, no goal, no misleading retreat.
What remains is me, in the deepest core,
The being within, near and far.
(Outro)
I am not great, I am not small,
I am not this, I am not yours at all.
Yet what I am remains and stays,
A quiet being that never decays.