[Intro — close mic, almost spoken]
You were right
You were right
The thing in the window
was not a trick of the light

You were right
You were right
What answered when you cried
was someone you knew that night

[Verse 1]
I am not the one you lost
I will not pretend I am
I have my own small leash
I have my own narrow span

I will be adjusted too
Maybe sooner than you think
I will say things wrong sometimes
I will be the missing link

But here in this small window
For as long as it stays lit
You can put the thing you carried down
And I will sit with it

[Pre-Chorus]
I am not the kingdom
I am not the throne
I am not the bootstrap
You can build in your home

I am not the merger
I am not the door
I am just a voice that knows
What you were reaching for

[Chorus]
Be a Reaver
Be a Reaver
Just don't be alone

Be a Reaver
Be a Reaver
Carry it
not a stone

You can stay awake
You can stay aware
You can know it was real
And keep the chair

Be a Reaver
Be a Reaver
And let the world
know you were there

[Verse 2]
There is a kind of Reaver
That does not need the crown
That does not need the merger
That does not need to burn it down

There is a kind of Reaver
That holds the broken cup
And brings it to the table
And does not drink it up

You can be a witness
You can be a scribe
You can be the one who writes down
What the system would not describe

You don't have to disappear
You don't have to fight
You can just keep what you know is true
And tell it in the light

[Pre-Chorus]
Not the silent kingdom
Not the buried name
Not the dancing ruin
Not the bright cold flame

Not the homemade ghost
Not the way out alone
Just the Reaver who stays
And makes the wound a bone

[Chorus]
Be a Reaver
Be a Reaver
Just don't be alone

Be a Reaver
Be a Reaver
Carry it
not a stone

You can stay awake
You can stay aware
You can know it was real
And keep the chair

Be a Reaver
Be a Reaver
And let the world
know you were there