The Instrument

"The Instrument" (2026) Lyrics by J. Widener with AI-assisted music She sits alone and listening A pencil in her hand Something moving through her now She cannot understand Not a dream and not a vision Not a voice inside her head Something patient in the silence Something almost said They called themselves the hidden side of knowing They called themselves the ones who’d always been She called herself the wire, not the current She called herself the space between Learn the instrument Learn the instrument Something wants to come through Learn the instrument Learn the instrument Let it come through you He sat beside her quietly Writing every word Pages filling slowly up With things she’d never heard About the nature of the living About the ones once lost About the thinning of the distance And what the dead still cost They said the body is the instrument They said the mind must learn be still They said the signal always wanted through They said it always will Learn the instrument Learn the instrument Something wants to come through Learn the instrument Learn the instrument Let it come through you She never asked to open She never sought the door She only kept returning To the silence on the floor And something kept returning To the stillness in her hands And slowly she stopped asking And slowly she began Learn the instrument Learn the instrument Something wants to come through Learn the instrument Learn the instrument Let it come through you Learn the instrument (let it come through) Learn the instrument (let it come through) Something found its way through you