[Intro - Synth pad swells, sparse arpeggio, voice entering close] I had been reaching for something Across a room I thought was wide Trying to bridge what I was told Was a chasm with His will on the other side [Verse 1 - Sparse, close-mic'd, almost spoken] I was inspecting every prayer For evidence the verdict held I was scanning every doubt For the proof that I was one of His I was running the catechism in my head At every traffic light I was reading my own heart for receipts Of a love I could not see [Pre-Chorus - Synth pulse rising, pad bloom starts] But the questions never stopped Even in the answers they gave Even on the days I knew I would lie awake and ask if it was true [Chorus - Drums kick, pad widens, harmonies layer] What if the chasm was never there What if the bridge I built was a story What if the room I was reaching for Was the room I was already in The room I was already in [Verse 2 - Slightly fuller, building] I was reading Acts seventeen one Sunday *"In him we live, and move, and have our being"* And the word *in* did something in me I had been picturing Him across the room And the verse was saying I was inside Him That He had never been across at all That the air I was breathing was His thinking That the floor I was standing on was His will [Pre-Chorus - Questions dissolving] And the questions began to quiet Not because they were answered But because they stopped applying The chasm I was straining toward Was not a chasm I could reach Because the chasm was not there [Chorus - Same words, transformed register, more open] The chasm was never there The bridge I built was a story The room I was reaching for Was the room I was already in The room I was already in [Bridge - Sparse, reverbed, vocal close again, drums dropping] I was being thought I was being thought the whole time While I was building While I was inspecting While I was bridging While I was doubting He was thinking me into being And the thinking was the love And the love was the ground And the ground was the room [Final Chorus - Widescreen, stacked vocals, synth anthem] The chasm was never there The bridge I built was a story The room I was reaching for Was the room I was already in The Author had been thinking me The whole time The whole time The room I was already in [Outro - Fading pad sustains, vocal ascending and dissolving] He was closer than that He was closer than that He was closer than that The room I was already in