Held In Place

No alarm... No release... Learned the shape before I named it How a room can close without a sound How you move and still stay tethered How the floor can keep you levelled down Every role becomes a railing Every need becomes a wall You get good at holding up the structure Till it feels like you were built for it all Hands at the back Eyes on the line One more day Set by design I can feel it At the edge of speech Something holding Underneath Held in place By the weight, by the wanting Held in place By the shape I keep becoming Every step Still inside the frame Every door Opening the same Held in place... Held in place... It gets harder now to tell the difference Between devotion and a deeper bind Between the things that give a life its meaning And the things that slowly take your time Love can turn into an anchor Duty into thinner air You can call it being needed Till there’s nothing left that isn’t theirs Keep it neat Hold it down Wear the calm Don’t make a sound I can feel it In the way I stay Something pulling In the way Held in place By the weight, by the wanting Held in place By the shape I keep becoming Every step Still inside the frame Every door Opening the same Held in place... Held in place... If I push against it hard enough Will it move or just move through me If I name it for the thing it is Will it loosen, will it lose me What keeps you here What keeps you still What asks for more And always will Held in place By the weight, by the wanting Held in place By the shape I keep becoming Every step Still inside the frame Every word Turning out the same Held in place But I can feel the strain Held in place... Held in place... No release... No escape... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Creative Credits Artist: Christopher Tharby (Second Voice North) Composition & Concept Development: Christopher Tharby x ChatGPT AI Music Engine: SUNO (Pro) Mix / Mastering Guidance: Assisted via ChatGPT prompts Visual Direction: Christopher Tharby AI Use Disclosure This song was created with the assistance of AI tools: SUNO (music generation) and ChatGPT (songwriting & production guidance). All prompts, direction, and final creative decisions are by the artist, Christopher Tharby. Copyright © 2025 Christopher Tharby / Second Voice North. All rights reserved. Music created using SUNO’s AI music engine (Pro plan) with original prompts, lyrics, and concepts by Christopher Tharby, developed in collaboration with ChatGPT. #SecondVoiceNorth#ChrisAndSam#OriginalMusic#IndieRock#IndieArtist #CanadianArtist#LyricVideo